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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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 weekCNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model
CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand
Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner
Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani
Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions
LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel
SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes
Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod
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.
Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer
Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.
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
K3s - “The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing”
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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API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API)
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book)
Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog)
Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)
DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link)
DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link)
Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights)
KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link)
Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link)
In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta)
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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Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization.
Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there!
Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.
KRO Announcement Blogs
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 weekLinkedIn 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!
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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Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF
New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF
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
Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub
kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller
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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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
CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA
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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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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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Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here)
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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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
Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn
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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Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year)