KubeFM

Dec 03 2024 43 ep. 41 mins 53

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Discover all the great things happening in the world of Kubernetes, learn (controversial) opinions from the experts and explore the successes (and failures) of running Kubernetes at scale.

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Optimize the Kubernetes dev experience by creating silos, with Michael Levan

Dec 03 2024 47 mins

Michael Levan explains how specialized teams and smart abstractions can lead to better outcomes. Drawing from cognitive science and his experience in platform engineering, Michael presents practical strategies for building effective engineering organizations.You will learn:Why specialized teams (or "silos") can improve productivity and why the real enemy is ego, not speci

Rebuilding my homelab: suffering as service, with Xe iaso

Nov 19 2024 42 mins

Xe Iaso shares their journey in building a "compute as a faucet" home lab where infrastructure becomes invisible and tasks can be executed without manual intervention. The discussion covers everything from operating system selection to storage architecture and secure access patterns.You will learn:How to evaluate operating systems for your home lab — from Rocky Linux to

The hater's guide to Kubernetes, with Paul Butler

Nov 12 2024 43 mins

If you're trying to make sense of when to use Kubernetes and when to avoid it, this episode offers a practical perspective based on real-world experience running production workloads.Paul Butler, founder of Jamsocket, discusses how to identify necessary vs unnecessary complexity in Kubernetes and explains how his team successfully runs production workloads by being selective about

Kubernetes webhooks explained and Aspect Oriented Programming, with Gordon Myers

Nov 05 2024 26 mins

This episode explores Admission Controllers and Webhooks with Gordon Myers, who shares his experience implementing webhook solutions in production. Gordon explains the lifecycle of Kubernetes API requests and how webhooks can intercept and modify resources before they are stored in etcd.You will learn:How the Kubernetes API processes requests through authentication, authorization,

98% faster data imports in deployment previews, with Nick Nikitas

Oct 29 2024 19 mins

Are you facing challenges with pre-production environments in Kubernetes?This KubeFM episode shows how to implement efficient deployment previews and solve data seeding bottlenecks.Nick Nikitas, Senior Platform Engineer at Blueground, shares how his team transformed their static pre-production environments into dynamic previews using ArgoCD Application Sets, Wave and Velero.He expl

When Kubernetes and Go don't work well together, with Emin Laletović

Oct 22 2024 25 mins

Discover how a seemingly simple 502 error in Kubernetes can uncover complex interactions between Go and containerized environments.Emin Laletović, a solution architect at Hybird Technologies, shares his experience debugging a production issue in which a specific API endpoint failed due to out-of-memory errors.He walks through the systematic investigation process, from initial log

Declarative configuration and the Kubernetes Resource Model, with Brian Grant

Oct 15 2024 52 mins

This episode offers a rare glimpse into the design decisions that shaped the world's most popular container orchestration platform.Brian Grant, CTO of ConfigHub and former tech lead on Google's Borg team discusses the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) and its profound impact on the Kubernetes ecosystem.He explains how KRM's resource-centric API patterns enable Kubernetes' flexibility

Comparing GitOps: Argo CD vs Flux CD, with Andrei Kvapil

Oct 08 2024 30 mins

Dive into the world of GitOps and compare two of the most popular tools in the CNCF landscape: Argo CD and Flux CD.Andrei Kvapil, CEO and Founder of Aenix, breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of Argo CD and Flux CD, helping you understand which tool might best fit your team's needs.You will learn:The different philosophies behind the tools.How they handle access control and de

Kubernetes is simple: it's just Linux, with Eric Jalal

Oct 01 2024 48 mins

Eric Jalal, an independent consultant and Kubernetes developer, explains how Kubernetes is fundamentally built on familiar Linux features. He discusses why understanding Linux is crucial for working with Kubernetes and how this knowledge can simplify your approach to cloud-native technologies.You will learn:Why Eric considers Kubernetes to be "just Linux" and how it wraps

Configuring requests & limits with the HPA at scale, with Alexandre Souza

Sep 24 2024 52 mins

Alexandre Souza, a senior platform engineer at Getir, shares his expertise in managing large-scale environments and configuring requests, limits, and autoscaling.He explores the challenges of over-provisioning and under-provisioning and discusses strategies for optimizing resource allocation using tools like Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA).You will