Kubernetes Podcast from Google

This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast [https://sre.google/prodcast/]. Kaslin joined Ben Good [https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamingood/] and Steve McGhee [https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemcghee/] to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com] - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com [kubernetespodcast@google.com] - twitter: @kubernetespod [https://twitter.com/kubernetespod] - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com]   News of the week Kubernetes 1.34 Sneak Peak [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/07/28/kubernetes-v1-34-sneak-peek/] Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) [https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164] Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-eks-enables-ultra-scale-ai-ml-workloads-with-support-for-100k-nodes-per-cluster/] CNCF Cloud Native Glossary [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/07/25/cloud-native-glossary-sign-language-comes-to-the-cloud-native-glossary/]   Links from the interview Backstage [https://www.cncf.io/projects/backstage/] DORA Metrics [https://dora.dev/]

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon [https://fr.linkedin.com/in/pierre-gilles-mialon] and Glen Yu [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/glenyu]. 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. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com] - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com [kubernetespodcast@google.com] - twitter: @kubernetespod [https://twitter.com/kubernetespod] - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com] News of the week * Docker Desktop version 4.43 release [https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-4-43/] * Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-and-docker-collaboration?e=48754805&utm_campaign=CDR_0x4c813a5f_default&utm_medium=external&utm_source=blog] * KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026 [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/07/08/konnichiwa-yokohama-kubecon-cloudnativecon-returns-to-japan-in-2026/] Links from the interview * Google Developer Experts [https://developers.google.com/community/experts?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4c813a5f_default&utm_medium=external&utm_source=blog] * Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1 [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/build-platform-krm-part-1-whats-platform?e=48754805&utm_campaign=CDR_0x4c813a5f_default&utm_medium=external&utm_source=blog] * Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2 [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/build-platform-krm-part-2-how-kubernetes-resource-model-works?e=48754805&utm_campaign=CDR_0x4c813a5f_default&utm_medium=external&utm_source=blog] * KRO on the podcast [https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/250-kro/] * Kyverno [https://kyverno.io/] * Nomad [https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad] * FluxCD [https://fluxcd.io/]

Ricardo Rocha [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rocha-739aa718/?originalSubdomain=ch] 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).   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com] - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com [kubernetespodcast@google.com] - twitter: @kubernetespod [https://twitter.com/kubernetespod] - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com]   News of the week * Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/25/image-compatibility-in-cloud-native-environments/] * Gemini CLI on GitHub [https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli] * Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live! [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/26/cloud-native-glossary-the-vietnamese-version-is-live/] * CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let’s Build What’s Next [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/24/joining-cncf-as-executive-director-lets-build-whats-next/] * OpenStack Foundation [https://www.openstack.org/] * OpenInfra Foundation [https://openinfra.dev/] Links from the interview * Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-rochaj/] * CERN [https://home.cern/] * Infiniband [https://network.nvidia.com/pdf/whitepapers/IB_Intro_WP_190.pdf] * Kubernetes Jobs [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/] * HTCondor [https://htcondor.org/] * Slurm Workload Manager [https://slurm.schedmd.com/] * Kueue [https://kueue.sigs.k8s.io/] * Volcano [https://volcano.sh/] * Kube-batch (archived) [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-batch] * Kubefed (archived) [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubefed] * Yunikorn (Unicorn) [https://yunikorn.apache.org/] * KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2) [https://github.com/kubewharf/kubeadmiral] * CNCF End User Awards - CERN [https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/03/21/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-cern-as-the-top-end-user-award-winner/] * Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/] * CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot) [https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1218] * Interlink [https://www.cncf.io/projects/interlink/] * Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration) [https://slurm.schedmd.com/slinky.html] * XPK: a container-native platform for HPC [https://github.com/AI-Hypercomputer/xpk] * Gateway API [https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/] * KubeRay [https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/cluster/kubernetes/index.html]

This week’s interview was recorded live at Google Cloud Next, and features Alain Regnier [https://www.linkedin.com/in/alainregnier/] and Camila Martins [https://www.linkedin.com/in/camilla-martins-603344115/?locale=en_US] talking about recent developments in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Including exploring highlights from KubeCon EU, and the value of community events.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com] - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com [kubernetespodcast@google.com] - twitter: @kubernetespod [https://twitter.com/kubernetespod] - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com]   News * Google Cloud Next [https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/] * KubeCon Europe [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/] * Amazon Q for the Command Line [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/command-line.html] * Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/enhance-ai-assisted-development-with-amazon-ecs-amazon-eks-and-aws-serverless-mcp-server/] * KubeCon China [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-china/], KubeCon Japan [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan/], and KubeCon India [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/archive/2024/kubecon-cloudnativecon-india/program/maintainer-summit/] * CNCF Maintainer Summit [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/maintainer-summit/] and Maintainer Track [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/features-add-ons/project-opportunities/] at KubeCon North America * LLM-d project [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/enhancing-vllm-for-distributed-inference-with-llm-d?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_awareness_b427977447&utm_medium=external&utm_source=youtube] * VLLM [https://vllm.ai/] * Kubernetes Inference Gateway [https://github.com/kube-inference/inference-gateway] * Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/05/introducing-gateway-api-inference-extension/] Interview * Kubo Labs [https://www.kubolabs.io/] * Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program [https://developers.google.com/community/experts?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_awareness_b427977447&utm_medium=external&utm_source=youtube] * DevOpsDays [https://devopsdays.org/] * Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) [https://www.cncf.io/kcds/] * KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025 [https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-kcd-brasil-presents-kcd-rio-de-janeiro-brasil-2025/] * KubeCon EU 2025 Schedule [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/] * SecNumCloud [https://cyber.gouv.fr/secnumcloud-pour-les-fournisseurs-de-services-cloud] * OpenTelemetry [https://opentelemetry.io/] * Docker Community [https://www.docker.com/community/] and Docker Captains Program [https://www.docker.com/community/captains/] * Elastic Community [https://www.elastic.co/community/] * HashiCorp Community [https://www.hashicorp.com/community] * GKE Dataplane V2 [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/dataplane-v2?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_awareness_b427977447&utm_medium=external&utm_source=youtube] * Kubernetes Network Policies [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/] * GKE VPC-native clusters [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/alias-ips?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_awareness_b427977447&utm_medium=external&utm_source=youtube] * GKE Dashboards [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/dashboards?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_awareness_b427977447&utm_medium=external&utm_source=youtube] * Docker's AI/ML Trends Report 2024 [https://www.docker.com/blog/ai-trends-report-2024/] * eBPF [https://ebpf.io/] * Liz Rice [https://www.lizrice.com/] * CNCF Landscape - Service Mesh [https://landscape.cncf.io/guide#orchestration-management--service-mesh] * Container Storage Interface (CSI) [https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/] * Agones [https://agones.dev/site/] * McDonald's AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next [https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/25/session-library?session=CUSLT-130] * Target AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next [https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/25/session-library?session=CUSLT-105] * Target AI session at Google Cloud Next [https://youtu.be/R4xyyK0JkFo] * Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote [https://www.youtube.com/live/xLDSuXD8Mls?si=yVX7Cpkb06Pb5y3J]

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.   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com] - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com [kubernetespodcast@google.com] - twitter: @kubernetespod [https://twitter.com/kubernetespod] - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com]   News of the week * Etcd has released version 3.6.0 [https://etcd.io/blog/2025/announcing-etcd-3.6/] * Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Rapid channel in GKE [https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/05/kubernetes-1.33-available-on-gke.html] * Kyverno 1.14.0 was released [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/05/14/announcing-kyverno-release-1-14/] Links from the interview * Nick Eberts on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholaseberts/] * Jon Li on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljfh001/] * MCO Blog [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/multi-cluster-orchestrator-for-cross-region-kubernetes-workloads?e=48754805] * MCO Repo [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gke-fleet-management/tree/main/multi-cluster-orchestrator] * Cluster Inventory API [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-inventory-api?tab=readme-ov-file] * ClusterProfile API [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-multicluster/4322-cluster-inventory/README.md] * Gemma 3 vLLM Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gke-fleet-management/blob/main/multi-cluster-orchestrator/samples/gemma_vllm/README.md] * Hello World Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gke-fleet-management/blob/main/multi-cluster-orchestrator/samples/hello_world/README.md] * Gateway API Inference Extension [https://gateway-api-inference-extension.sigs.k8s.io/]