A biweekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes community hosted by Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We cover Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and other developments in the ecosystem. Abdel and Kaslin on Twitter at @KubernetesPod or by email at kubernetespodcast@google.com.
In this episode, Kat Cosgrove (SIG Docs Technical Lead, SIG Release Subproject Lead, and Steering Committee member) and Natali Vlatko (SIG Docs Co-Chair, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and Open Source Architect at Cisco) join hosts Kaslin Fields and Abdel Sghiouar to discuss the newly published Kubernetes AI usage policy. We dive into the legal and administrative reasoning behind the policy—including why AI tools cannot legally sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) or co-author PRs—and explore how maintainers manage the influx of "AI slop" PRs, spam comments, and restricted AI note-taker bots in community meetings. The discussion highlights the balance between human accountability and AI as an enhancer, while sharing actionable advice on how new contributors can sustainably get involved with SIG Docs, issue wrangling, and the Kubernetes Release Team.
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News of the week Apple Native Container Tool for macOS 1.0: Apple has shipped version 1.0 of its native container tool for macOS. Built in Swift specifically for Apple Silicon, it departs from traditional shared-VM setups like Docker Desktop by isolating every single Linux container inside its own dedicated micro-VM using the native macOS Virtualization framework. Read more on Cloud Native Now.
Google OpenRL: Google launched OpenRL, a new open-source project designed to streamline the training and reinforcement learning loops of large language models. The tool brings declarative, Kubernetes-style resource orchestration concepts to the messy process of AI model fine-tuning. Read more on Cloud Native Now.
CNCF Welcomes New Members: At KubeCon CloudNativeCon India, the CNCF announced they added 14 new members, end Users, and non-profit organizations, highlighting the continued growth of the Cloud Native Ecosystem. One of the new members is Loveable, who was a recent guest on the show. We highly recommend you go listen to Episode 268 about the Agent Sandbox. Read the full announcement on PR Newswire.
Is a Pod the Right Deployment Unit for an AI Agent?: Lin Sun from Solo published a community post on the CNCF blog questioning whether the classic Kubernetes Pod primitive is still the best abstraction for hosting autonomous, long-running AI agents and introducing Agent-substrate, a project attempting to bring a solution to the table. Read more on the CNCF Blog.
Links from the interview Kubernetes AI Usage Policy – Read the community's official guidelines and rules for AI-assisted contributions.
TODO Group Steering Committee – A Linux Foundation project bringing OSPO professionals and enthusiasts together.
Contributor License Agreement (CLA) – Standard agreement required for all human contributors, which AI agents cannot legally sign.
Kubernetes SIG Docs – Get involved with the documentation community.
SIG Docs Style Guide – Learn the style guidelines for contributing to Kubernetes docs.
Kubernetes SIG Release – Details on how to get involved with the release cycle.
Links from the post-interview chat Linus Torvalds on AI LinkedIn Post – Torvalds' clarification on using AI as a helper tool rather than writing kernel C++ code.
Devoxx– A popular developer conference in Europe
Prowbot GitHub Repo – Kubernetes' main CI/CD bot handling PR automation.
In this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl.
Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked about Kubernetes, Sandboxes and Chocolate.
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News of the week OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project
CNCF TAG Elections
KubeCon India
Kubernetes Community Days global events
Links from the interview Lovable
Cilium
Etcd
Cloudflare Sandbox
Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes)
OpenClaw
Claude
OpenAI
Bun toolkit for Javascript
gVisor
Firecracker
Kata Containers
Vitess
Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix.
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News of the week Etcd version 3.7.0 is out
Merge Forward Community
Truepositive
Links from the interview Kubernetes 1.35 codename Haru
Release theme and logo
Logo designer
User Namespaces
Workload API
Workload Aware Scheduling (WAS)
DRA features graduating to Stable
GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea
Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth it.
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News of the week Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level
KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report
Call for Proposals for KubeCon && CloudNativeCon North America 2026 closes May 31
OpenChoreo v1.0 CNCF Sandbox
Links from the interview Lucy on Linkedin
Lucy's website
[Article] Migrating Uber's Compute Platform to Kubernetes
[Lucy Video] Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes
Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud
Peloton: Uber's Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads
Odin: Uber's Stateful Platform
Uber Batch platform
Apache Mesos
Hyrum's Law
GKE Blue-Green nodepools
Node Lifecycle Working Group
Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail
kubegpt.org
Osquery
Uber Careers
Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant.
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News of the week Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here
LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project
CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE)
Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project
Links from the interview Amie Wei on LinkedIn
GKE turns 10 Hackathon
Hackathon winner announcement
Online boutique sample
Bank of Anthos sample
The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE
Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.
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Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)
Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.
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Intro KubeCon North America 2025
Kubernetes AI Conformance program
News of the Week Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek
Helm4
Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance
AKS Ingress Nginx Update
AKS Automatic managed system node pools
Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration
KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud
CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration
KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project
OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project
Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project
Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows
KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026
Links from the interview
Kubernetes Software Conformance program
kubectl
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API
Kubernetes WG AI Conformance
Kubernetes SIG Architecture
Kubernetes SIG Testing
GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.
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News of the week
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation
llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference
vllm-project/semantic-router on github
Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)
Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility
Links from the interview
Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way
MiniKube
Kind
Docker Compose
Docker Swarm
GKE Autopilot
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
Google Cloud TPUs
Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)
Jax (Machine Learning Framework)
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
Serverless on Google Cloud
Grafana
Prometheus
Kubectl-ai
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)
Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta
In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers
GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot
Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.
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News of the week GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters
KCD H1 2026
Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project
Links from the interview Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn
Antonio Ojea on X
Virtual Networks
Kubernetes Networking
Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
Kubernetes Gateway API
Calico
Cilium
Multi-Service CIDR
DRANet
Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation.
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News of the week Reddit Post
KubeCon NA
KubeCon NA Colo events
Jeager v2
Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE
Links from the interview Shannon Kularathna
Kubernetes SIG Docs
Kubernetes Documentation
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
Kubernetes Code of Conduct
SIG Contributor Experience
Kubernetes Blog
Join the Kubernetes Slack
Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events
SIG Docs Meetings
Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository
Good First Issues for kubernetes/website
Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website
Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version.
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News of the week GKE 10 years Hackathon
Golden Kubestronauts 100 members
Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple
DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation
Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation
Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose
Links from the interview Vyom Yadav
Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak
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
This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast. Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering.
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News of the week Kubernetes 1.34 Sneak Peak
Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)
Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster
CNCF Cloud Native Glossary
Links from the interview Backstage
DORA Metrics
Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI.
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News of the week Docker Desktop version 4.43 release
Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run
KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026
Links from the interview Google Developer Experts
Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1
Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2
KRO on the podcast
Kyverno
Nomad
FluxCD
Ricardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG).
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News of the week Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments
Gemini CLI on GitHub
Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live!
CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let's Build What's Next
OpenStack Foundation
OpenInfra Foundation
Links from the interview Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn
CERN
Infiniband
Kubernetes Jobs
HTCondor
Slurm Workload Manager
Kueue
Volcano
Kube-batch (archived)
Kubefed (archived)
Yunikorn (Unicorn)
KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2)
CNCF End User Awards - CERN
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot)
Interlink
Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration)
XPK: a container-native platform for HPC
Gateway API
KubeRay
This week's interview was recorded live at Google Cloud Next, and features Alain Regnier and Camila Martins talking about recent developments in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Including exploring highlights from KubeCon EU, and the value of community events.
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News Google Cloud Next
KubeCon Europe
Amazon Q for the Command Line
Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server
KubeCon China, KubeCon Japan, and KubeCon India
CNCF Maintainer Summit and Maintainer Track at KubeCon North America
LLM-d project
VLLM
Kubernetes Inference Gateway
Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API
Interview Kubo Labs
Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program
DevOpsDays
Kubernetes Community Days (KCD)
KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025
KubeCon EU 2025 Schedule
SecNumCloud
OpenTelemetry
Docker Community and Docker Captains Program
Elastic Community
HashiCorp Community
GKE Dataplane V2
Kubernetes Network Policies
GKE VPC-native clusters
GKE Dashboards
Docker's AI/ML Trends Report 2024
eBPF
Liz Rice
CNCF Landscape - Service Mesh
Container Storage Interface (CSI)
Agones
McDonald's AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next
Target AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next
Target AI session at Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote
Guests are Nick Eberts and Jon Li. Nick is a Product Manager at Google working on Fleets and Multi-Cluster and Jon is a Software Engineer at Google working on AI Inference on Kubernetes. We discussed the newly announced Multi Cluster Orchestrator (MCO) and the challenges of running multiple clusters.
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News of the week Etcd has released version 3.6.0
Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Rapid channel in GKE
Kyverno 1.14.0 was released
Links from the interview Nick Eberts on LinkedIn
Jon Li on LinkedIn
MCO Blog
MCO Repo
Cluster Inventory API
ClusterProfile API
Gemma 3 vLLM Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD)
Hello World Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD)
Gateway API Inference Extension
In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm!
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News of the week CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model
Kubernetes Blog
CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
Open Observability Summit
Links from the interview NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand
Audun Fauchald Strand
Hans Kristian Flaatten
NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration)
Kubernetes Podcast 216: NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby
NAIS
KubeCon EU 2025 Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Lead Platform Engineer, NAV & Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer, NAV
GKE release notes
Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner
Max Körbächer
Andreas (Andi) Grabner
Book: "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting modern platforms as a product" by Max Körbächer, Andreas Grabner, and Hilliary Lipsig
Cloud Native Summit Munich
Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ronak Nathani
Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
Ahmet's Blog
Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions
LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel
KubeCon EU 2025 talk: Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud
About the Gateway API
Gateway API Inference Extension
Deploy GKE Inference Gateway
SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes
Ivan Valdes
etcd.io
SIG etcd on GitHub
Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod
Jago Macleod
Google Open Source: Kubernetes
Schedmd
Slurm
Ray
Run:ai from Nvidia
Medium blog: "Deploy Slurm on GKE" by Abdel Sghiouar
AI-Hypercomputer, xpk
XPK (Accelerated Processing Kit, pronounced x-p-k) is a command line interface that simplifies cluster creation and workload execution on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). XPK generates preconfigured, training-optimized clusters and allows easy workload scheduling without any Kubernetes expertise.
Cursor AI Editor
Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer
Clément Nussbaumer
Talos Linux
Cluster-api
Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.
KubeCon EU 2025 Talk: "Day-2'000 - Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank's Journey" - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinance
Kubeadm
Kubeadm is a tool built to provide kubeadm init and kubeadm join as best-practice "fast paths" for creating Kubernetes clusters.
Being a First-Time KubeCon Attendee, with Nick Taylor
Kubernetes The Hard Way
K3s - "The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing"
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
Kubernetes Up and Running
Kubernetes Docs
KubeCon EU 2025 Sponsored Keynote: The Science of Winning: Oracle Red Bull Racing's Formula with Open Source, Kubernetes and AI - Sudha Raghavan, SVP of OCI Developer Platform, Oracle
Nina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she's worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She's been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33.
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News of the week 229 new things Google announced at Next 25
MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator
Golden Kubestronaut
Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate
The kube-scheduler-simulator
K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects
Links from the interview Nina Polshakova
Kubernetes Deprecation Policy
Kubernetes Dev Google Group
solo.io
Istio
API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API)
Kubernetes Release Team
GitHub
Istio revisions
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book)
Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments (KubeCon EU 2024)
Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog)
Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)
Sidecar Containers
Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link)
DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link)
DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests (KEP link)
Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights)
EndpointSlices API
Kubernetes Gateway API
node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie (issue)
KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link)
Kubelet
Removal: Host network support for Windows pods (KEP link)
Containerd
SIG Windows
HostProcess Containers (Windows)
Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link)
User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default)
CRI-O
Runc
In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta)
Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)
KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion
PyTorch
Linkerd
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Tiffany Aching series
Guards! Guards!
Going Postal
Kubernetes Slack
New Contributor Orientation
Today we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins.
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News of the week Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization.
Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet
Kueue Project
Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there!
Google Cloud Next
Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.
kagent.dev
Links from the interview Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)
KRO Announcement Blogs
Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO
AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator
AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project
Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet?
The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro
InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool
CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API.
Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications.
Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software.
Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes.
KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations.
Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes.
Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language.
kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.
Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way.
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News of the week CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level.
CNCF Maturity Levels
Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support.
Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)
Links from the interview LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn
Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception
Flannel: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes.
Spanner: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service.
Kubernetes Architecture - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs!
Kubernetes Resource Model
Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)
Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
Lior Lieberman is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway.
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News of the week NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes
Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project
Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF
New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF
Links from the interview Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We're Doing About It - Tim Hockin
GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources
Migrating from Ingress
Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub
kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller
GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/
Kakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it's built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing it.
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News of the week The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live
The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects
The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest
Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog
Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github
EKS Hybrid nodes
CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA
Links from the interview
KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector
DAG
WebGL
William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field.
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News of the week RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management
KubeCon EU 2025 schedule
CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025)
CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025)
CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025)
kubezonnet
Links from the interview linkerd.io
Linkerd on GitHub
Linkerd architecture
"Linkerd doesn't use Envoy" Blog Post (2020)
envoyproxy.io
Sidecar containers in Kubernetes
Linkerd2 on GitHub
Rust programming language
Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks)
Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services
KubeCon NA 2024, "Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel"
Cloud Native Startup Fest, "Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?"
John Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management.
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News of the week KubeCon Japan CFP
KubeCon India CFP
Links from the interview Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here)
CoreDNS
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes
Control Topology Management Policies on a node
NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs
Links from the post-interview chat 2025 Kubernetes Community Day Events
This episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space.
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Links from the interview 2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes
10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226, 227, 228, 229
CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary
Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary
Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode
LLM Gateway
Emily Fox on the podcast
Kubernetes Podcast on Bluesky
Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn
Kubernetes on Bluesky
Kubernetes Podcast on Youtube
Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes
Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.
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News of the week Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More
Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode
Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024
Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog)
SIG ContribEx Comms
Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year)
The Odyssey by Homer, Samuel Butler on Google Books
Releases on Kubernetes.io
Links from the post-interview chat Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha)
KubeCon North America 2024 took place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Nov 12-15. We interviewed people on the show floor to gather their impressions of the event, what they learned and what they want to see in the future.
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News of the week Cert-manager is a CNCF graduate project
Dapr is a CNCF Graduated project
Dapr episode on the Kubernetes Podcast
Istio 1.24 release. Ambient Mesh GA
Cloud Native Heroes Challenge
CNCF Flagship events for 2025
New Cloud Native Certifications
Kubernetes certifications prices increase in 2025
wasmCloud is a CNCF incubated project
SpectroCloud $75 million Series C funding
Solo.io donates Gloo API Gateway to the CNCF
Links from the interview Guests:
Rajas Kakodkar
Jeremy Rickard
Rey Lejano
Jimmy Zelinskie
Frederic Branczyk
Lucy Sweet
Sreekaran Srinath
Joe Thompson
Tag runtime
SIG Security
SIG Docs
WG LTS
The Maintainer Monologues - Sarah Christoff, Jason Hall, Scott Rigby, Karen Chu & Ryan Nowak
Expanding the Capabilities of Kubernetes Access Control - Jimmy Zelinskie & Lucas Käldström
Guests are Maciej Rozacki, Product Manager on GKE for AI Training, and Wojciech Tyczyński, Software Engineer on the GKE team at Google. We explore what it means for GKE to support 65k nodes, and the open source contributions that made this possible
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News of the week The Kubernetes Podcast is on Bluesky
OpenTelemetry expanding into CI/CD observability
Gitpod is moving away from Kubernetes
OpenCost is a CNCF Incubated project
Links from the interview Guests:
Maciek
Wojciech
Kubernetes OSS Scalability thresholds
PGS on the Kubernetes Podcast
Batch Working Group
Serving Working Group episode on the podcast
Dynamic Resource Allocation
Kueue
Multitenancy and Fairness at Scale with Kueue
SIG Scalability
Links from the post-interview chat Consistent Reads from Cache
Kubernetes Scalability: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Yuan is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift AI. Previously, he has led AI infrastructure and platform teams at various companies. He holds leadership positions in open source projects, including Argo, Kubeflow, and Kubernetes WG Serving. Yuan authored three technical books and is a regular conference speaker, technical advisor, and leader at various organizations.
Eduardo is an environmental engineer derailed into a software engineer. Eduardo has been working on making containerized environments the de facto solution for High Performance Computing(HPC) for over 8 years now. Began as a core contributor to the niche Singularity Containers, today known as Apptainer under the Linux foundation. In 2019 Eduardo moved up the ladder to work on making Kubernetes better for performance oriented applications. Nowadays Eduardo works at NVIDIA on the Core Cloud Native team working on enabling specialized accelerators into Kubernetes workloads.
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News of the week Docker official terraform provider
Tetrate and Bloomberg Envoy AI Gateway
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2024 laptop drive
Remaining KCDs for 2024
Links from the interview Yuan Tang
Eduardo ArangoWG Serving
Kserve
Kserve Serving models with OCI images
LLM Gateway
Dynamic Resources Allocation
