Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Nina Polshakova [https://www.linkedin.com/in/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.   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 * 229 new things Google announced at Next 25 [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/google-cloud-next/google-cloud-next-2025-wrap-up?e=48754805] * MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gke-fleet-management/tree/main/multi-cluster-orchestrator] * Golden Kubestronaut [https://www.cncf.io/training/kubestronaut/] * Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate [https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/certified-cloud-native-platform-engineering-associate-cnpa] * The kube-scheduler-simulator [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/07/introducing-kube-scheduler-simulator/] * K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects [https://www.mirantis.com/company/press-center/company-news/k0s-kubernetes-and-k0smotron-join-cncf-sandbox-in-next-stage-of-development/]   Links from the interview * Nina Polshakova [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-polshakova/] * Kubernetes Deprecation Policy [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/deprecation-policy/] * Kubernetes Dev Google Group [https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev] * solo.io [https://solo.io/] * Istio [https://istio.io/] * API Gateway [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/gateway/] (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API) * Kubernetes Release Team [https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/release-team] * GitHub [https://github.com/] * Istio revisions [https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/upgrade/canary/#canary-upgrade-using-revisions] * Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal [https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public] (Link to publisher's site about the book) * Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments (KubeCon EU 2024) [https://youtu.be/sNRnB4rGZBI?si=OJUdtCLFsfVbDlU8] * Kubernetes 1.33 release blog [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/23/kubernetes-v1-33-release/] (Link to release announcement blog) * Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps] * Sidecar Containers [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/] * Multiple Service CIDR support [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-network/1880-multiple-service-cidrs/README.md] (KEP link) * Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/] * DRA support for partitioned devices [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/4815] (KEP link) * DRA device taints and tolerations [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/5055] (KEP link) * DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/4816] (KEP link) * Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/03/26/kubernetes-v1-33-upcoming-changes/] (Link to pre-release highlights) * EndpointSlices API [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices/] * Kubernetes Gateway API [https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/] * node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie [https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/117756] (issue) * KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/4005] (KEP link) * Kubelet [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet/] * Removal: Host network support for Windows pods [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/3503] (KEP link) * Containerd [https://containerd.io/] * SIG Windows [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-windows] * HostProcess Containers (Windows) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/create-hostprocess-pod/] * Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver [https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129923] (KEP link) * User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default) [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/127] * CRI-O [https://cri-o.io/] * Runc [https://github.com/opencontainers/runc] * In-place Resource Resize for Pods [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/05/12/in-place-pod-resize-alpha/] (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta) * Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) [https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler] * KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion [https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-api-machinery/5080-ordered-namespace-deletion/README.md] * PyTorch [https://pytorch.org/] * Linkerd [https://linkerd.io/] * Terry Pratchett's Discworld series [https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/] * Tiffany Aching series [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Aching] * Guards! Guards! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guards!_Guards!] * Going Postal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal] * Kubernetes Slack [https://slack.k8s.io/] * New Contributor Orientation [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/mentoring/new-contributor-orientation]

Today we welcome Jesse Butler [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-butler/] and Nic Slattery [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasslattery/] 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.   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 JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization. * Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/03/23/introducing-jobset/] * Kueue Project [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kueue] * Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there! * Google Cloud Next [https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next] * Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes. * kagent.dev [https://kagent.dev/] Links from the interview * Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) [https://kro.run/] * KRO Announcement Blogs * Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-kube-resource-orchestrator?e=48754805] * AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-open-source-kro-kube-resource-orchestrator/] * AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/kube-resource-orchestrator-from-experiment-to-community-project/] * Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet? [https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1ivhubw/anyone_tried_kro_for_kubernetes_resource/] * The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro [https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-gets-a-new-resource-orchestrator-in-the-form-of-kro/] * InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool [https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/02/kube-resource-orchestrator/] * CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/] - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API. * Knative: Knative.dev [https://knative.dev/] - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications. * Terraform: Terraform.io [https://www.terraform.io/] - Infrastructure as code software. * Helm: Helm.sh [https://helm.sh/] - A package manager for Kubernetes. * KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT [https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kpt] - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations. * Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane [http://cncf.io/projects/crossplane] - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes. * Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev [https://cel.dev/] - A powerful expression language. * kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder] - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.

Ahmet Alp Balkan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmetalpbalkan/] and Ronak Nathani [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaknnathani/?originalSubdomain=ca] 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.   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 * CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level. [https://www.cncf.io/projects/cubefs/] * CNCF Maturity Levels [https://www.cncf.io/project-metrics/#:~:text=Project%20Maturity%20Levels,should%20be%20adopting%20different%20projects.] * Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support. [https://canonical.com/blog/12-year-lts-for-kubernetes] * Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) [https://www.cncf.io/kcds/] Links from the interview * LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/stateful-workload-operator-stateful-systems-on-kubernetes-at-linkedin] * Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/01/how-we-run-kubernetes-in-kubernetes-kubeception/] * Flannel [https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel]: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes. * Spanner [https://cloud.google.com/spanner?hl=en]: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service. * Kubernetes Architecture [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/architecture/] - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs! * Kubernetes Resource Model [https://github.com/kubernetes/design-proposals-archive/blob/main/architecture/resource-management.md] * Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO) [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-kube-resource-orchestrator] * Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? [https://ahmet.im/blog/controller-pitfalls/]

Lior Lieberman [https://www.linkedin.com/in/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.   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 * NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/02/28/nftables-kube-proxy/]   * Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/02/26/kubescape-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/] * Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/03/announcing-the-beta-release-of-opentelemetry-go-auto-instrumentation-using-ebpf/]  * New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/03/03/new-phippy-book-guidelines-enhancing-community-access-engagement/] Links from the interview * Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We’re Doing About It - Tim Hockin [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oslwx3hj2Eg] * GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway] * Migrating from Ingress [https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/guides/migrating-from-ingress/] * Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api-inference-extension/blob/release-v0.1.0/pkg/README.md] * kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/ingate] * GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/ [https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/]

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.   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 The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live [https://maintainersummiteu2025.sched.com/] The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/01/29/2024-year-in-review-of-cncf-and-top-30-open-source-project-velocity/] The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/endusercontest] Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-kube-resource-orchestrator?e=48754805] Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github [https://github.com/kro-run] EKS Hybrid nodes [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/a-deep-dive-into-amazon-eks-hybrid-nodes/] CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA [https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/blackwell-coreweave-gb200-nvl72-instances-cloud/]   Links from the interview KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/khi] DAG [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph] WebGL [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API]