Kubernetes Podcast from Google

When your infrastructure is effectively infinite, you may have to keep an eye on your credit card. Webb Brown started a project that does exactly that - Kubecost, which aims to reduce spend and prevent resource-based outages. He talks to Craig and Adam about the project and the company behind it. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Kiwis abroad: please meddle in the election Clarke Gayford tweet Killer Queen Black Killer Queen News of the week VMworld announcements Bryan Liles’ promotion Episode 54, with Bryan Liles Pixie Labs TechCrunch coverage Cicada, by Jeremy Herzog Announcing Java support for cdk8s Good: Envoy on Windows Not so good: Envoy CVE-2020-25017 Kubenav 3.0.0 announced Cisco acquires Portshift Veeam acquires Kasten Solo.io acquires $23m Episode 55, with Idit Levine Links from the interview Kubecost Kubecost blog Cluster turndown Cost model Spot instances (AWS) and preemptible VMs (Google Cloud) DeepMind AI Reduces Google Data Centre Cooling Bill by 40% Managing your costs on Kubernetes by Karl Stoney at Autotrader Episode 52, with Russell Warman and Karl Stoney FinOps and the FinOps Foundation Shifting left Stackwatch Glacier National Park and Going-to-the-Sun Road Webb Brown on Twitter

Kubernetes makes it easy to run distributed workloads, but how do you make sure that replicas don’t conflict with one another? You elect one as the leader. Mike Danese, chair and TL of Kubernetes SIG Auth, joins a vegan and a carnivore to explain how Kubernetes implements leader election. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week What is a staycation? What is steak? Beefsteak, vegetarian/vegan restaurant Nachos News of the week Chaos Mesh 1.0 Azure news: AKS comes to Azure Stack HCI (Preview) AKS adds stopping/restarting clusters, Kubernetes 1.19, confidential compute nodes (Preview) Bridge to Kubernetes is GA Istio Steering Committee election results OpenServiceMesh joins the CNCF Sandbox Odo 2.0.0 GA Odo from Deep Space 9 Determined AI on Kubernetes Cloud Run for Anthos adds events KubeAcademy Pro from VMware KubeCon EU 2020 transparency report Scholarships for KubeCon NA 2020 are open for application Links from the interview Wet labs and dry labs Threads What is the difference between processes and threads? Mutex or lock What is a mutex? Critical section Compare-and-swap Gas station bathroom keys Futex Lock server: Chubby etcd Optimistic concurrency Resource versions Regional clusters in GKE Leader election Leader election client in Kubernetes’ client-go An example of using it by Carlos Becker The new Lease API Paxos and Raft Deadlock Split brain Mike Danese on Twitter and GitHub

Torkel Ödegaard is the creator and project lead of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. Learn how Torkel went from modding video games to building a data visualization platform, and co-founding a company that is now offering a complete monitoring service built on Prometheus. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week On The Basis Of Sex RBG Star Trek: Picard News of the week CVE-2020-14386 gVisor: Containing a real vulnerability by Fabricio Voznika Announcing IBM Cloud Code Engine Docker Enterprise Container Cloud Mirantis rethinks Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes by Beth Pariseau Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel KubeEdge approved as CNCF incubating project kubeapply and Kubernetes configuration at Segment Introducing Grafana Metrics Enterprise Pure Storage to acquire Portworx Portworx acquired by Pure Storage Ionir exits stealth and promises instant data mobility NetApp Cloud Volumes Service powered by GKE AKS adds CSI driver for Files and Disks Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 VMware Tanzu: Announcing vSphere with Tanzu One of four new editions vSAN Data Persistence Platform Mission Control expands policy management capabilities SentinelOne announce automated applicaiton control for containers 16 CNCF interns graduate from Google Summer of Code Building operators for cluster add-ons by Somtochi Onyekwere CFPs open for ServiceMeshCon and Cloud Native Security Day North America A Year of Kubernetes at GitLab Episode 89, with Marin Jankovski Links from the interview The 2001 dot-com crash Rocket Arena mod for Quake 3 Extreme ironing Tradera IT contracting The Mythical Man Month Graphite Kibana Grafana GitHub The history of Grafana UX Grafana Labs Team Kausal Cortex Loki Crystal Reports Interesting use cases: Beehive monitor Hospital queue visualisation Monitoring Art plugin A $50m Series B funding round Grafana Metrics Enterprise Recommended reading: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds Torkel Ödegaard on Twitter

Ed Huang is co-founder and CTO of PingCAP, creators of the TiDB distributed database and the TiKV key value store. Ed worked on clustering Redis while at Wandou Labs, creating and open-sourcing a tool called Codis. Deciding to focus on this space, he created TiDB and then TiKV, and founded PingCAP. He shares the story behind the projects, bridging the gap between China and the West with open source, and his Desert Island Disc. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Sippee cup Tippee cup Coffee cup News of the week Lens 3.6.0 Security groups for Pods on AWS EKS CNCF End User Technology Radar for Observability Kotary by CA-GIP OnePanel and its docs WebAssembly OCI spec Episode 55, with Idit Levine Red Hat Marketplace by IBM Stackrox lands $25m in funding Introducing Nutanix Platform Services by Amit Jain Confidential Computing on GCP and GKE New Serverless training course by Alex Ellis Episode 116, with Alex Ellis Jetstack CNI migration notes by Josh Van Leeuwen Links from the interview Wandou Labs Codis clustering for Redis twemproxy Spanner and F1 papers from Google Research TiDB TiKV PingCAP CAP theorem Local Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes and beta launch blog explaining it TiKV’s CNCF journey: Sandbox Incubation PingCAP’s $50m funding round Graduation Chaos Mesh Wasm and Wasmer Dark Side of the Moon Ed Huang on Twitter

Melanie Cebula is a staff engineer at Airbnb, where she has built a scalable modern architecture on top of cloud native technologies. She regularly shares her knowledge in presentations focusing on cloud efficiency and usability, and today shares the story of Airbnb’s Kubernetes migration with hosts Adam and Craig. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog River Otter River otter News of the week Five days of Kubernetes 1.19: Structured logs API server warning messages EndpointSlices Storage capacity tracking 1 year support TiKV graduates from CNCF incubation cert-manager 1.0 Episode 75, with James Munnelly Tanzu Build Service is GA State of Spring report AWS Bottlerocket is GA on EKS Kalm (keep Kalm and karry on) Developer thread on Reddit CRAFT from Salesforce (and its GitHub repo) Introducing Kubernetes CSI sidecar containers from HPE by long-time listener Michael “Data” Mattsson KubeCon EU Virtual YouTube playlist CNCF to provide another round of CommunityBridge mentorships Faster services: no CPU limits by Eric Khun Hacker News thread How GoJek upgrades Kubernetes on GKE by Tasdik Rahman Links from the interview Melanie Cebula Our second classically trained musician guest Early Airbnb architecture Charon Programming by toggling switches Smartstack Horizontal Pod Autoscaling: minReplicas Melanie’s talks: FutureStack 17: From Monolith to Microservices KubeCon NA 2018 keynote: Developing at Scale KubeCon NA 2019: 10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes Melanie Cebula on Twitter

Keptn, a control plane for continuous delivery, came out of the need to install Dynatrace’s software at their customer’s environments. Alois Reitbauer is Chief Technical Strategist at Dynatrace, reponsible for open source, and a co-chair of the CNCF App Delivery SIG. He talks to your hosts about Keptn, observability after deployment, and how owning a 40 year old sports car is more “curation” than “operation”. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Loved: Thinking, Fast and Slow Unloved: a pile of Sex and the City News of the week Anthos Attached Clusters New Anthos pricing GKE on The Keyword Cloudian introduces operator Canonical introduces Kubernetes 1.19 Portainer CE 2.0 Kuberntes client comparison by Yolan Vloeberghs and Pieter Vincken Distributed tracing overview by Jonathan Gold Links from the interview Dynatrace OpenTelemetry OpenMetrics Keptn What it is, how it works, and how to get started Blogs by Alois: Micro operations — A new operations model for the micro services age How your delivery pipeline will become your next big legacy-code challenge Related CI/CD tools: Spinnaker Jenkins Argo Flux GitLab CD Foundation SIG Interoperability CNCF SIG App Delivery Alois’s car marque of choice Alois Reitbauer on Twitter

Taylor Dolezal is a senior Developer Advocate at Hashicorp and the Kubernetes 1.19 release lead. His desire to give talks and join the CNCF Ambassadors led him to the release team and to his new job. He talks to Adam and Craig about how a TI-83 calculator started him on the path. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week The Moon Disaster deepfake Mayfield Lavender Farm News of the week Kubernetes 1.19 release - deferred 24 hours Istio 1.7 release! New Istio Steering Committee charter k3s to join the CNCF Sandbox New networking features in GKE Anthos announcements from Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Code updates Serverless Framework Knative component VMware vRealize Operations 8.2 Moving forward from Beta in Kubernetes Palinurus, from Mailchannels What’s new in Falco 0.25 AWS Controllers for Kubernetes GCP Config Connector Carvel Operator SDK reaches 1.0 Thanos and Cortex are both incubating in the CNCF The Kubernetes Handbook by Farhan Hasin Chowdhury Links from the interview TI-83 Plus Silver Edition Walt Disney Studios “Deployed my blog on Kubernetes” Hashicorp Terraform CNCF Ambassador 1.14 release team 1.18 release team Episode 96, with Jorge Alarcon 1.19 enhancement sheet Ingress goes stable 12 month release support cycle Lauri Apple, PgM for SIG Release Sidecar containers.. still Jeremy Rickard is 1.20 release team lead Episode 61 with Jeremy Rickard and Ralph Squillace Nomad, from Hashicorp Hashicorp joins the CNCF CNCF Cape, as modeled by Lachie Evenson Reading list: Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larsen The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming Defending Jacob Taylor Dolezal on Twitter

Constance Caramanolis is the co-chair of this week’s virtual KubeCon EU, and a principal software engineer at Splunk. Her introduction to Cloud Native came as an Envoy maintainer working at Lyft; she talks to Craig and Adam about communication: techmical, programmatic, in-person and online. We also summarise all the news from KubeCon. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week KubeCon EU #kubernetes-podcast on CNCF Slack Get an invite to Slack Hamilton (musical) Watch on Disney Plus News of the week Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is GA Red Hat news summary from SiliconAngle 5 years of Google Kubernetes Engine Announcement post from 2015 GKE Dataplane v2 Docker changes registry pricing and retention Hacker News commentary IBM introduced POWER10 Introducing hierarchical namespaces by Adrian Ludwin OpenEBS 2.0.0 containerd 1.4.0 VMware Tanzu Mission Control integrates VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront Mirantis acquires Lens Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel Pulumi adds new Kubernetes features Links from the interview Envoy Omnition, acquired by Splunk Splunk acquires Omnition OpenTelemetry Collector Constance’s talks: KubeCon NA 2018: Envoy Intro (with Matt Klein) Velocity 2018: Leveraging Envoy when responding to high-severity incidents SYN-ACK Constance’s KubeCon EU keynote The Five Whys KubeCon EU agenda KubeCon NA 2019 puppies Corgis Invite a llama Episode 80, with Vicki Cheung Greek food: Galaktoboureko Loukoumades Stroopwafels Poutine Constance Caramanolis on Twitter

Alex Ellis created serverless framework OpenFaaS while working a day job. It’s used by some big companies, but he’s resisted the temptation to join one. Instead, he’s offering consulting and seeking sponsorships, building a business from the ground up. He explains the pros and cons of independence to Craig and Adam. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Microsoft launches OpenServiceMesh Including a bit from Linkerd Kong releases Kong Mesh Tanzu Application Service 2.10, formerly known as Pivotal Cloud Foundry KubeCarrier Cube carrier Episode 109, with Sebastian Scheele Nestybox releaases Sysbox (GitHub) Palo Alto Networks discloses and fixes fault in KataContainers JenkinsX plugin for Octant Backyards gets FIPS compliant StarlingX 4.0 New AKS features etcd security audit Episode 95, with Xiang Li New Code of Conduct Committee Members Links from the interview Alex Ellis ADP Payroll Docker Captains program Lord Birt Lord Ernie DockerCon 2016 Ben Firshman funker funker-dispatch by Alex Ellis FaaS OpenFaaS Moby’s Cool Hacks - closing keynote Joining VMware to work on OpenFaaS VMware blog VMware Dispatch Acquisition of Heptio VEBA Leaving VMware and Alex going out on his own OpenFaaS Ltd Alex’s 2020 mission The world’s first managed k3s service First year accounts and end-of-year party Inlets Inlets PRO k3sup Brown sauce Arkade 5 years of Raspberry Pi and robots Insiders Subscription Treasure Trove archive The Five Pressures of Leadership in OSS A bit of Istio before tea-time Cards Against Containers for Black Girls Code Alex Ellis on Twitter

Since we last spoke about Minikube 18 months ago, the project has gone 1.0, and made large performance and usability improvements. Thomas Strömberg is the manager of the Container DevEx team at Google and a maintainer of Minikube. He talks to Craig and Adam about why system administrators are the best code reviewers, the importance of surveying users, and building bikes made of bamboo. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Baking hot Baking: Mary Berry’s Banana Loaf Caramel Slice Washington State Voters Guide Lord Buckethead Monty Python’s Election Night Special News of the week OpenSSF launched Nova from Fairwinds: monitor Helm charts for new releases Lifebelt by Gustav Westling Chaos Mesh joins the CNCF Sandbox As does the Serverless Workflow spec Announcing Vitess 7 Spinnaker Operator is GA AKS 2020-07-27 release GKE r25 Server side encryption for ECR Project report: Jaeger Episode 97 with Yuri Shkuro How Dropbox migrated from NGINX to Envoy by Alexey Ivanov and Oleg Guba Links from the interview Thomas Strömberg Minikube Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc DiRT: Disaster Recovery Testing Wheel of Misfortune Timex Sinclair ZX81 Bringing Minikube to the next Billion Users: Thomas’s talk at KubeCon China 2019 The mini Minikube Survey Other similar tools: Microk8s k3d kind Knoppix Pausing Minikube Running multiple nodes Triage Party Slow Jam Space Jam Bamboo bicycles A finished example A work in progress Thomas Strömberg on Twitter