Kubernetes Podcast from Google Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

We talk with Nikhita Raghunath, Nabarun Pal, and Paco Xu. Nikhita, Nabarun, and Paco have each held various leadership positions related to the Kubernetes project. They talk about their journeys, the various leadership roles they’ve been in, and offer advice for new contributors and those who want to move into leadership in the project.
 
Nikhita is a Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom. She is currently a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) overseeing all technical matters of the CNCF. In the past, she was a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, a technical lead for SIG Contributor Experience and has also won the CNCF Top Committer Award. Currently, she is also a co-chair of the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon conference.
Nabarun is a Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. In the past, he was the release lead for Kubernetes 1.21 and has served eight release teams. Nabarun also works actively with the Python community by organizing PyCon India and has been recognized in media publications for his work.
Paco is an open source team lead in DaoCloud. He started to work on container/docker in 2016 and later started to participate in the Kubernetes Community in 2018. He is a current member of Kubernetes Steering Committee and works mainly on kubeadm and sig-node. He is Co-chair of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2024.
 
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News of the week Blog: 10 Years of Kubernetes
CNCF-Hosted Co-Located Events Overview
CFP for CNCF-hosted Co-located Events
Kubernetes Community Days
Links from the interviews CNCF Technical Oversight Committee
SIG ContribEx
Google Summer of Code
CNCF Top Committer Award 2021 - Nikhita Raghunath
Blog Post: Google Summer of Code with Kubernetes by Nikhita Raghunath
Kubernetes Docs: Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions
SIG API Machinery
SIG Testing
SIG Release
CNCF Chop Wood Carry Water Award 2018 - Nikhita Raghunath
Kubernetes Steering Committee
KubeCon India
KubeCon NA
Kubernetes 1.21: Power to the Community
Pycon India
Kubernetes Python Client on GitHub
Kubernetes Contributor Summit 2019 YouTube Playlist
Kubernetes Release Team
KubeCon NA 2024 Scholarships (applications due by September 1, 2024)
Kubeadm
SIG Node
KubeCon China 2024
Kubelet
Kubernetes Production Readiness Review Process
Kubernetes Release Team CI Signal Lead Runbook
 

Welcome to the second episode of the 4 part special series for the Kubernetes 10 year anniversary. In this episode we spoke to two very influential people in Kubernetes’ history. Tim Hockin and Kelsey Hightower Both have been involved with the project since its inception and both had, and continue to have, impact on the project and the community.
 
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Chatter of the week KuberTenes Regional Events
Kubernetes Twitter Account
News of the week Kubernetes introduces hydrophone
AKS Automatic
CKS Changes after Sept 12, 2024
KubeCon and CloudNativeCon CFP Closes June 9th
KubeCon Co-Located events CFP Closes June 14, 2024
Links from the interview Google Borg
Google Omega
Let Me Contain That For You
Kubernetes Sidecars
Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes
Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments
Kubernetes The Hard Way
Kelsey retirement announcement
Redpanda
Crossplane
Llama 3
Open-core model
Lets Encrypt
Google's infrastructure for everyone else
Kubernetes: Up and Running
CNI
Kubernetes Networking
Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)

This episode is the first in our four-part Kubernetes 10 Years Anniversary special! The focus of this episode is on Kubernetes maintainers who have been involved with the project since its early days, and who are still active today. Featuring guests: David Eads, Davanum Srinivas (Dims), and Federico Bongiovanni.
David is a senior principal software engineer at Red Hat.  He started contributing to Kubernetes before v1 and now serves as a sig-auth tech lead and sig-apimachinery tech lead and chair.
Dims is a principal engineer at AWS, long term contributor to Kubernetes who served in multiple committees for the project. Today dims is in the Technical Oversight Committee or TOC. Welcome to the show Dims!
Federico Bongiovanni is an engineering manager at Google. He started using Kubernetes in the early days at a previous company, and became a contributor about 6 years ago when he joined Google. Today, he’s a Co-chair of SIG-APIMachinery. Welcome to the show! Would you like to tell us more about yourself?
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News of the week https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.22.x/announcing-1.22/
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/05/09/gateway-api-v1-1/
https://traefik.io/blog/traefik-3-0-ga-has-landed-heres-how-to-migrate/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-build-2024-announcements/
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kuber10es-birthday-bash/
https://www.cncf.io/kubertenes/
  Links from the interview Kubernetes SIG Auth
Kubernetes SIG API Machinery
Automagic kubectl config merging causes hair loss
Safety or Usability: Why Not Both? Towards Referential Auth in K8s - Rob Scott, Google & Mo Khan, Microsoft
Open Stack
Kubernetes Cloud Provider OpenStack
RedHat OpenShift
Kubernetes SIG Architecture
Kubernetes Kubelet
Blog: Completing the Largest Migration in Kubernetes History
Dims’ PR removing over 1 million lines of Cloud Provider code from Kubernetes
KubeCon EU 2024 talk: Kubernetes Is FINALLY Removing in-Tree Cloud Providers - Bridget Kromhout & Chris Privitere
KEP-2395: Removing In-Tree Cloud Provider Code
Blog from 2019 about the reasoning behind the removal of cloud provider code
Blog about setting cloud provider code to disabled by default in v1.29
The March 2024 Spotlight blog on SIG Cloud Provider
 
Links from the post-interview chat Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments - Tim Hockin, Google & Davanum Srinivas, Amazon Web Services
“Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software” by Nadia Eghbal
Keynote: A Vision for Vision - Kubernetes in Its Second Decade - Tim Hockin
SIG K8s Infrastructure

Álvaro Hernández is the founder and CEO of OnGres a company that provides among other things a distribution of Postgres that runs on Kubernetes, called “StackGres”. Álvaro is also an AWS Data Hero and a passionate database and open source software developer
 
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Note: This episode was edited on May 17th to remove a chatter segment from episode 219, which had been mistakenly edited into it.
News of the week Kubernetes code cleanup
KEP-2395: Removing In-Tree Cloud Provider Code - GitHub KEP Readme
Remove gcp in-tree cloud provider and credential providers - GitHub PR
Spotlight on SIG Cloud Provider - Blog
The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes - Blog
Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components - Blog
Google I/O
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 Report
KuberTENes Birthday Bash
The Kubernetes Community takes over kubernetesio on X
WG-Serving on GitHub
DoK Community Ambassador Applications
 
Links from the interview Álvaro Hernández:
LinkedIn
Twitter/X
OnGres
PostgreSQL
Stackgres.io
Stackgres github
Kubernetes
Pg_repack
Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community
Data On Kubernetes 2022 Report
Data on Kubernetes Whitepaper - Database Patterns - by CNCF TAG Storage
Istio
Apache Zookeeper
Strimzi - CNCF Project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
Postgres extensions
The Kubernetes Operator Pattern
Presentation about PostreSQL Hooks from PostgreSQL wiki
OCI - Open Container Initiative
Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images

Guests Thomas Poignant and Todd Baert are Software engineers with long experience working on IAM systems and feature flagging software. Today they are both maintainers and members of the Technical Committee of OpenFeature which is a CNCF incubated project.
 
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News of the week Istio service Mesh add-on on Azure Kubernetes Services
The CNCF released their 2023 annual survey
Women Who code closed its doors
Vulnerability in OpenMetadata version 1.31 or lower
Links from the interview Thomas Poignant
LinkedIn
Twitter/X
Todd Baert
LinkedIn
Twitter/X
OpenFeature
Feature Flagging
Pete Hodgson article on feature flags
Go feature flag
Flagd
FlagSmith

In this episode, release lead Kat Cosgrove walks us through what’s new in Kubernetes 1.30. Recorded at KubeCon EU 2024.
 
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News of the week Google Cloud Next Wrap Up Blog
Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally available
Introducing the Windows Operational Readiness Specification
Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes blog
A Peek at Kubernetes v1.30
Release Team Lead Handbook
Kubernetes Release Team info