Why does a car manufacturer own an IT company? How did that IT company end up running 900 Kubernetes clusters, starting at version 0.9? Craig asks these questions and more of Sabine Wolz, Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation.

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Chatter of the week

Live UK political coverage on the day of recording. As predicted, news happened slightly faster than publication, and at the time of release, Boris Johnson is expected to resign as Conservative Party leader today.
Shibboleth
Lord of the Rings TV show moved to UK

News of the week

GKE Cost Allocation
CubeFS accepted as CNCF incubating project
Bare metal deployments for EKS Anywhere
- Episode 142, with Gianluca Arbezzano
- Cubernetes
  - Episode 20, with Justin Garrison
OpenShift Service Mesh 2.2
Tanzu Mission Control adds FluxCD
Pixie plugins
What GKE users need to know about Kubernetes’ new service account tokens, by Taahir Ahmed
Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation, by Jeremy Brown
- Hacker News discussion
eBPF Summit 2022

Links from the interview

Erik Smithuis: ‘Ben je werkelijk gelukkig en doe je datgene waarvoor je bestemd bent?‘