In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon Europe in Amsterdam had close to 10000 attendees and shows a continuous increase in the adoption of containers and Kubernetes.  Below, you can find links to the things discussed during the podcast:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWKrMmneVFLjYkGSmeaTgTqqNZTY7A90UQEa2xZxnVE/edit?usp=sharingAre you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Ryan Wallner talks with community organizer and solutions architect Michael O'Leary. Ryan and Michael tackle what it means to build and be part of a community as well as how to participate in meetups. Michael also spends some time talking about his Certified Kubernetes Admin study group and how he's been helping others get their CKA and expanding it to public members of the Kubernetes community, All this and more on this weeks episode!   Are you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!Show Links https://community.f5.com https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way https://www.meetup.com/boston-kubernetes-meetup/ https://kubebyexample.com/

Dan Arcari, cloud and backend technologist at Zus Health, discusses their use of Kubernetes, ECS, and Serverless in healthcare. Topics include choosing the right tools, HIPAA and SOC2 compliance, managing infrastructure, application deployment, and the benefits of using tools to solve problems.

In this Episode, Bhavin and Ryan tackle the topic of serverless computing. Bhavin and Ryan try to help answer the basics of what serverless is, isnt and why the term can be so confusing. Show Links https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-serverless https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/what-is-serverless/ https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/lets-stop-talking-about-serverless-cold-starts/ https://keda.sh/ https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-knative https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/serverless/serverless-comparison https://workers.cloudflare.com/ https://blog.back4app.com/cloudflare-vs-heroku-which-is-the-best-option/ https://www.bmc.com/blogs/serverless-faas/ https://world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-be-fooled-by-serverless-776cd730

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Platform engineering expert Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec to discuss all things Platform engineering, what is it, and how it is different from DevOps. They also discuss when it makes sense to have a platform engineering team and how you can get started on your journey by building internal development platforms.  Show Notes:  - What is platform engineering? - What is an internal developer platform? - What is Dynamic Configuration Management? - Platform Engineering community - PlatformCon 2023 - Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter Cloud Native News:  InfluxData Series E round - https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/influxdata-lands-51m-to-grow-its-time-series-database-offerings Cloud Native Security Con - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2NQ-Zi_k5qVmZyxSmLBzM6V Adrian's Platform engineering blog - https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23 Amazon EKS Anywhere on SNOW - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-amazon-eks-anywhere-on-snow Kelsey Hightower affirms databases on k8s - https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1624081136073994240 NetApp discontinues astra data store https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/01/25/netapp-astra-data-store/ Edge computing trends 2023 - https://technologymagazine.com/articles/the-cutting-edge-edge-computing-trends-to-watch-in-2023

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan sit down with Cloud Native expert Nigel Poulton of https://nigelpoulton.com/ to discuss WebAssembly and in particular its current and future role in the cloud native ecosystem. Nigel, Bhavin and Ryan discuss everything from "What is WebAssembly" to how it can run on Kubernetes with a WASM runtime called runwasi. Stay till the end to hear our new segment where we ask out guests a question that ChatGPT came up with for some good fun! Show Links This article will show you how to create a "hello world" Wasm app and use Docker tools to build and deploy it" https://nigelpoulton.com/getting-started-with-docker-and-wasm/ This article explains runwasi: https://nigelpoulton.com/what-is-runwasi/ This is the Microsoft article that explains using Wasm nodes in AKS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi-node-pools Runwasi: https://github.com/containerd/runwasi  Scale to Zero: https://dzone.com/articles/scale-to-zero-with-kubernetes

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christoph Hartmann - the CTO and co-founder of Mondoo about all things Kubernetes Security. The discussion starts by talking about Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) and then dives into Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and SBOM Attestation. They also talk about the open-source project "cnspec" and how it can help organizations scan their entire infrastructure, including VMs, containers, container registries, code repositories, etc for vulnerabilities.  News: https://www.weave.works/blog/weaveworks-donates-project-kured-to-the-cncf https://sysdig.com/blog/top-15-kubectl-plugins-for-security-engineers/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/dell-has-acquired-cloud-orchestration-startup-cloudify-sources-tell-us-for-around-100m/ https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/cncf-hosted-co-located-events/about/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/mirantis-acquires-shipa/ https://www.harness.io/blog/harness-acquires-propelo Show Links: 1. cnspec Project Pagehttps://cnspec.io 2. cnspec on Github: https://github.com/mondoohq/cnspec 3. Hacking Kubernetes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9onasWkaeuE&t=3s 4. Mondoo https://mondoo.com/

In the first episode of season 3, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Michael Guarino - the CTO of plural.sh about how plural helps users deploy applications on Kubernetes easily. They discuss the challenges associated with deploying applications consistently across different Kubernetes distributions, and talk about how Plural provides a unified solution that auto-generates Kubernetes manifests, HELM charts, and Terraform files and follows GitOps principles to deploy applications across Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.  News:  Kubernetes v1.26: Alpha support for cross-namespace storage data sources Best of 2022: 8 CNCF Projects for Cloud-Native Persistent Storage: https://containerjournal.com/features/8-cncf-projects-for-cloud-native-persistent-storage/ Best distributes file/block for k8s - Reddit 2023 thread - https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/100wdrq/best_distributed_fileblock_storage_for_kubernetes JuiceFS https://juicefs.com/docs/cloud/use_juicefs_in_kubernetes. Chronosphere funding round - https://chronosphere.io/learn/115m-series-c-funding-chronospheres/ Show Links: 1,  https://www.plural.sh/ 2. https://app.plural.sh/ 3. https://github.com/pluralsh/plural 4. https://docs.plural.sh/

In this last episode of Kubernetes Bytes Season 2, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Service Mesh. You will learn all about the benefits of Service Mesh, how it helps reduce overhead for developers, the different deployment models (sidecar and Ambient Mesh), and the challenges and benefits for each. News: Trilio raises $17M - https://trilio.io/resources/funding-and-executive-update Snyk raises $196.5M at $7.4B valuation - https://snyk.io/news/snyk-closes-196-5-million-series-g-funding-at-7-4-billion-valuation/ Blocks and Files - Kubernetes Storage Tests Update -  https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/12/15/ondat-beats-pures-portworx-in-container-storage-tests/ Links / Background: https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/definition/service-mesh https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-a-service-mesh https://linkerd.io/what-is-a-service-mesh/ https://kublr.com/blog/implementing-a-service-mesh-with-istio-to-simplify-microservices-communication/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/istio-ambient-explained/9781098142698/ch01.html https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh https://youtu.be/6zDrLvpfCK4 https://youtu.be/16fgzklcF7Y

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk Cesar Saavedra of Gitlab about the importance of GitOps, DevSecOps and more with Kubernetes. They also cover what Gitlab has to offer in this particular space and what new features they have been working on. EKS/Container Marketplace as EKS add-ons https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-marketplace-for-containers-now-supports-direct-deployment-to-amazon-eks-clusters/ New – Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput This new throughput mode is designed to provide your applications with as much throughput as they need with pay-as-you-use pricing.  Trivy now scans Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) - https://blog.aquasec.com/trivy-now-scans-amazon-machine-images-amis multicloud with crunchy postgres https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/multi-cloud-strategies-with-crunchy-postgres-for-kubernetes Get ready for 1.26 https://www.armosec.io/blog/kubernetes-1-26-everything-you-should-know/ Get ready for 1.26 (diff vendor) https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-1-26-whats-new/ Argo has graduated - Dec 6 -  https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2022/12/06/the-cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-argo-has-graduated/ Flux graduates from CNCF incubator - Nov 30 https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2022/11/30/flux-graduates-from-cncf-incubator/ GITLAB INFO https://docs.gitlab.com/ @cesar_saavedr GitLab Learn GitLab Blog GitLab Docs GitLab Snapshots (YouTube videos)