Kube Cuddle

In this episode, Rich speaks with Adolfo García Veytia from Stacklok.Topics include: Writing Kubernetes in PHP, contributing to the Linux kernel, joining SIG Release, improving the supply chain security of the Kubernetes releases, the issue of CVEs in software, and release engineering.Show notesAdolfo’s LinkedIn | X | GitHub | Rich’s LinkedIn | Bluesky | LinktreeKubernetes SIG

In this episode Rich speaks with Whitney Lee. Topics include: Whitney’s career before tech, how she started at IBM and VMware, her streaming shows Enlightening and You Choose, the challenges for new folks learning cloud native, and Imposter Syndrome.Show notesMauricio SalatinoMauricio and Whitney’s KubeCon KeynotevClusterCrossplaneEnlighteningKeptnNetflix’s Freedom and Respon

This is a repost of episode 12. Kris Nova passed away in a climbing accident on August 16. I thought it was fitting to repost this conversation I had with her and Dave Fogle about their experiences being homeless.There is a memorial for Kris on the Nivenly site. It's backed by a GitHub repo, if you'd like to share your memories of her.https://nivenly.org/memorials/krisnova/Episode

This is a repost of an interview I did with Carolyn back in April of 2021, which was episode 6 of Kube Cuddle.The memorial to Carolyn on GitHub is here.The transcript is here.The original show notes are below.---In this episode Rich speaks with Carolyn Van Slyck from Microsoft.Topics include: How Carolyn got started coding, the old Microsoft versus the new Microsoft, getting paid t

In this episode Rich speaks with Paige Cruz, a Developer Advocate at Chronosphere. Topics include: How Paige got started with software development and Kubernetes, how much complexity should we expose developers to, using events and traces when troubleshooting, tracing for Kubernetes (added in 1.22), OpenTelemetry, and the burdens of SRE.Show notes:Paige’s Twitter | Paige’s Mast

In this episode Rich speaks with one of the creators of the Kubernetes project, Joe Beda. Topics include: KubeCon NA 2022, the Kubernetes Documentary, how the Docker image changed everything, designing early Kubernetes, what Kelsy Hightower brought to the community, founding Heptio and the VMWare acquisition, and what Joe would do differently designing Kubernetes today.

In this episode Rich speaks with Justin Garrison from AWS. Topics include: Why Justin left his college C.S. program, writing a scheduler in Bash, running animation jobs with k8s at Disney, monitoring cloud native services, making Kubernetes TikToks and streaming Containers from the Couch, EKS, Karpenter, and ECS.

In this episode Rich speaks with Divya Mohan from SUSE. Topics include: The importance of Linux fundamentals, open source and Kubernetes in India, imposter syndrome, working on the Kubernetes documentation, what it means to be a contributor, chaos engineering for Kubernetes, being a CNCF Ambassador.

In this episode Rich speaks with Lukas Gentele from Loft Labs. Topics include: Running Kuberentes on top of Mesosphere, how Kubernetes killed DevOps, why Kubernetes multi-tenancy is a challenge for platform teams, the origin of vcluster, speaking at KubeCon, and the fear of breaking k8s changes.

In this episode Rich speaks with Liz Rice from Isovalent.. Topics include: How Liz got involved in cloud native, Kelsey Hightower’s Tetris demo, writing eBPF programs, use cases for Cilium, why she joined Isovalent, Cilium’s new service mesh, Liz’s time on the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee, Golang.