Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM project.
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News of the week Kubernetes 1.34 is expected to release end of August
Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose
CNCF top 30 project of 2025
Links from the interview LLM-D
KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes
WG Serving
vLLM
Disaggregated Prefilling
LWS: LeaderWorkerSet
In this episode, we talk to three active leaders who have been around since the very beginning of Kubernetes. We explore how Kubernetes has changed since its inception, with a particular focus on current efforts in Open source Kubernetes to support AI/ML style workloads.
Maciej Szulik is currently taking a seat in the Kubernetes Steering Committee. He's also leading Special Interests Groups responsible for kubectl, workload and batch controllers. Maciej has been contributing to Kubernetes since the early days, jumping from one area to another where help was needed. He authored the first version of audit and helped shape its current one, as well as touched multiple other places in apimachinery. He was also responsible for designing and implementing Job and CronJob controllers. In kubectl he was responsible for the plugin mechanism and several major refactors to simplify the code. Since May 2024 he joined the ranks of Production Readiness Review (PRR) approvers helping ensure high production standards for the future of Kubernetes releases.
Clayton Coleman is a long-time Kubernetes contributor, having helped launch Kubernetes as open source, being on the bootstrap steering committee, and working across a number of SIGs to make Kubernetes a reliable and powerful foundation for workloads. At Red Hat he led OpenShift's pivot onto Kubernetes and its growth across on-premise, edge, and into cloud. At Google he is now focused on enabling the next generation of key workloads, especially AI/ML in Kubernetes and on GKE.
Dawn Chen has been a Principal Software Engineer at Google cloud since May 2007. Dawn has worked on an open source project called Kubernetes before the project was founded. She has been one of tech leads in both Kubernetes and GKE, and founded SIG Node from scratch. She also led Anthos platform team for the last 4 years, and mainly focuses on the core infrastructure. Prior to Kubernetes, she was the one of the tech leads for Google internal container infrastructure -- Borg for about 7 years. Outside of work, she is a wife, a mother of a 16-year old boy and a good friend. She enjoys reading, cooking, hiking and traveling.
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News of the week Kubernetes 1.31 Code Freeze is on July 9th
Links from the interview Kubernetes Working Group Batch
Kubernetes Working Group Serving
Blog: Introducing Indexed Jobs (2021)
Docs: Kubernetes Jobs
KEP: Elastic Indexed Jobs
Docs: Kubernetes CronJobs
KubeCon EU 2021: The Long, Winding and Bumpy Road to CronJob's GA - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat & Alay Patel, Red Hat
KubeCon EU 2018: Writing Kube Controllers for Everyone - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat (Beginner Skill Level)
Kubernetes Working Group Device Management
Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal process README
DockerCon 2014: The announcement of Kubernetes at DockerCon
Blog: AI & Kubernetes (by Kaslin)
Kueue - "Kueue is a cloud-native job queueing system for batch, HPC, AI/ML, and similar applications in a Kubernetes cluster."
Whitepaper: Large-scale cluster management at {Google} with {Borg}
Email: "Containers: Introduction" - An email introducing the concept of Linux containers to the Linux community
Links from the post-interview chat Blog - "Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 nodes" - OpenAI
Ray on Kubernetes
Five years ago, Clayton Coleman took a bet on a new open source project that Google was about to announce. He became the first external contributor to Kubernetes, and the architect of Red Hat's reinvention of OpenShift from PaaS to "enterprise Kubernetes". Hosts Adam Glick and Craig Box return for 2020 with the story of OpenShift, and their picks for Game of the Holidays.
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Chatter of the week Arrods
Minesweeper Kaboom
Simon Tatham's Mines
Snake NIBBLES.BAS
AI playing Snake
News of the week Google describe its BeyondProd cloud native security paradigm: BeyondProd: How Google moved from perimeter-based to cloud-native security
BeyondProd whitepaper
Protecting programmatic access to user data with Binary Authorization for Borg
Binary Authorization for Borg whitepaper
Episode 8 with Maya Kaczorowski
VMware completes acquisition of Pivotal Coverage at SiliconAngle and ContainerJournal
Chaos Mesh from PingCap Episode 82 with Ana Medina
Global access for internal load balancers now available on GKE
Calico 3.11
CrunchyData Postgres Operator 4.2
kubectl tree Episode 66 with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Luk Burchard
kubelive
Consistent OIDC authentication across multiple EKS clusters
Operating your BBQ meat smoker or your Christmas tree with Kubernetes
Vendors make a splash in 2019 service mesh implementation rush
2019 Kubernetes certificate outage by Victor Adossi
The poor state of Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaling according to Wander Hillen
Predictions and looks-back: opensource.com: 5 predictions for Kubernetes in 2020
SDXCentral: Kubernetes Opportunities, Challenges Escalated in 2019
DataCenterKnowledge: A Hyperconvergence Progress Report: Has Kubernetes Stolen the Show?
IDG Connect: Kubernetes: the tech to take centre stage in 2020
SiliconAngle: Predictions 2020: Cloud, Kubernetes and cybersecurity will rule
Forbes contributor: What Do Customers Want From The Kubernetes Ecosystem In 2020
The Enterprisers' Project: 5 Kubernetes trends to watch in 2020
TechRepublic: Cloud computing in 2020: Predictions about security, AI, Kubernetes, more
Christopher Tozzi: 4 ways Kubernetes could be improved
Farewell from Kontena
Links from the interview Red Hat OpenShift Why Red Hat chose Kubenretes for OpenShift by Joe Fernandes
Early history of OpenShift
Comparing OpenShift v2 and v3
Health checks
OpenShift differences from Kubernetes: DeploymentConfig
Builds
Docker registry
Routes
Don't turn off SELinux!
CoreOS Clayton in his CoreOS t-shirt
Tectonic
The Operator model
CoreOS acquired by Red Hat
What's new in OpenShift v4
Operator Framework and operator-lifecycle-manager
Red Hat acquired by IBM
Linux at IBM in the 90s The blonde kid
PowerLinux
PodDisruptionBudget
Clayton Coleman on Twitter