Kubernetes Podcast from Google

GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh [https://www.linkedin.com/in/garisingh/] about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: * web: kubernetespodcast.com [https://kubernetespodcast.com/] * mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com * X: @kubernetespod [https://x.com/kubernetespod] * bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com [https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com] News of the week * Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation [https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2025/10/08/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-knatives-graduation/] * llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference [https://llm-d.ai/blog/llm-d-v0.3-expanded-hardware-faster-perf-and-igw-ga] * vllm-project/semantic-router on github [https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router?tab=readme-ov-file] * Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC) [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/10/27/announcing-the-certified-meshery-contributor-cmc/] * Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/10/06/introducing-headlamp-plugin-for-karpenter/] Links from the interview * Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way [https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way] * MiniKube [https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/] * Kind [https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/] * Docker Compose [https://docs.docker.com/compose/] * Docker Swarm [https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/] * GKE Autopilot [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/] * Google Cloud TPUs [https://cloud.google.com/tpu?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Node Auto Provisioning (GKE) [https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/node-auto-provisioning?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Jax (Machine Learning Framework) [https://github.com/google/jax] * Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/] * Serverless on Google Cloud [https://cloud.google.com/serverless?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Grafana [https://grafana.com/] * Prometheus [https://prometheus.io/] * Kubectl-ai [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai] * Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/autoscaling/#scaling-workloads-vertically] * Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/05/16/kubernetes-v1-33-in-place-pod-resize-beta/] * In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/resize-container-resources/] * GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/container-optimized-compute-delivers-autoscaling-for-autopilot?e=48754805&utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast]

GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee. 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 * GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-autopilot-now-available-to-all-qualifying-clusters?e=48754805] * KCD H1 2026 [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/09/26/announcing-h1-2026-kcds/] * Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08/27/metal3-io-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/] Links from the interview * Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajojea/] * Antonio Ojea on X [https://x.com/Itsuugo] * Virtual Networks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_virtualization] * Kubernetes Networking [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/networking/] * Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/] * Kubernetes Gateway API [https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/] * Calico [https://www.tigera.io/project-calico/] * Cilium [https://cilium.io/] * Multi-Service CIDR [https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/network/extend-service-ip-ranges/] * DRANet [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/gke-network-interface-from-kubenet-to-ebpfcilium-to-dranet?e=48754805]

Kubernetes SIG Docs, With Shannon Kularathna

Shannon Kularathna [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/shannon-kularathna] is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation. 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 * Reddit Post [https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/1n9s4vp/reading_through_official_kubernetes_documentation/] * KubeCon NA [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/] * KubeCon NA Colo events [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/co-located-events/cncf-hosted-co-located-schedule/?ajs_aid=46c51b17-889c-4466-87c1-a75b2a34ae91] * Jeager v2 [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11/12/jaeger-v2-released-opentelemetry-in-the-core/] * Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE [https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/09/kubernetes-134-is-available-on-gke.html] Links from the interview * Shannon Kularathna [https://ca.linkedin.com/in/shannon-kularathna] * Kubernetes SIG Docs [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-docs)] * Kubernetes Documentation [https://kubernetes.io/docs/] * Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal [https://www.workinginpublic.com/] * Kubernetes Code of Conduct [https://kubernetes.io/conduct/] * SIG Contributor Experience [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-contributor-experience] * Kubernetes Blog [https://kubernetes.io/blog/] * Join the Kubernetes Slack [https://kubernetes.io/community/code-of-conduct/slack-guidelines/] * Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-contributor-experience/events] * SIG Docs Meetings [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-docs#meetings] * Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository [https://github.com/kubernetes/website] * Good First Issues for kubernetes/website [https://github.com/kubernetes/website/labels/good%20first%20issue] * Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website [https://github.com/kubernetes/website/labels/help%20wanted]

Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav

Vyom Yadav [http://linkedin.com/in/vyom-yadav] is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. 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 * GKE 10 years Hackathon [https://gketurns10.devpost.com/] * Golden Kubestronauts 100 members [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/08/21/celebrating-100-golden-kubestronauts/] * Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple [https://blog.openpolicyagent.org/note-from-teemu-tim-and-torin-to-the-open-policy-agent-community-2dbbfe494371] * DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation [https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08/25/documentdb-joins-the-linux-foundation/] * Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation [http://solo.io] * Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose [http://kubecrash.io] Links from the interview * Vyom Yadav [http://linkedin.com/in/vyom-yadav] * Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/07/28/kubernetes-v1-34-sneak-peek/]

LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw

Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM project. 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 is expected to release end of August [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/07/28/kubernetes-v1-34-sneak-peek/] * Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose [http://kubecrash.io] * CNCF top 30 project of 2025 [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/07/18/a-mid-year-2025-look-at-cncf-linux-foundation-and-the-top-30-open-source-projects/] Links from the interview * LLM-D [https://llm-d.ai/] * KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqDpqATcI0] * WG Serving [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/wg-serving] * vLLM [https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm] * Disaggregated Prefilling [https://docs.vllm.ai/en/v0.9.2/features/disagg_prefill.html] * LWS: LeaderWorkerSet [https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/lws]