Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl

In this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathangrahl/]. Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked about Kubernetes, Sandboxes and Chocolate. 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 OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project [https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/otel-graduates/] CNCF TAG Elections [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/05/26/three-tag-leads-walk-into-the-toc/] KubeCon India [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-india] Kubernetes Community Days global events [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/02/25/announcing-h2-2026-kcds/] Links from the interview Lovable [https://lovable.dev/] Cilium [https://cilium.io/] Etcd [https://etcd.io/] Cloudflare Sandbox [https://developers.cloudflare.com/sandbox/] Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes) [https://agent-sandbox.sigs.k8s.io/] OpenClaw [https://openclaw.ai/] Claude [https://openclaw.ai/] OpenAI [https://openai.com/] Bun toolkit for Javascript [https://bun.com/docs] gVisor [https://gvisor.dev/] Firecracker [https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/] Kata Containers [https://katacontainers.io/] Vitess [https://vitess.io/]

Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada

Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix. 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 version 3.7.0 is out [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/05/20/etcd-370-beta/] * Merge Forward Community [https://ocgroups.dev/cncf/group/merge-forward] * Truepositive [https://github.com/trupositive-ai/trupositive] Links from the interview * Kubernetes 1.35 codename Haru [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/22/kubernetes-v1-36-release/] * Release theme and logo [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/22/kubernetes-v1-36-release/#release-theme-and-logo] * Logo designer [https://x.com/avocadoneko] * User Namespaces [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/23/kubernetes-v1-36-userns-ga/] * Workload API [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/workload-api/] * Workload Aware Scheduling (WAS) [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/22/kubernetes-v1-36-release/] * DRA features graduating to Stable [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/22/kubernetes-v1-36-release/#dra-features-graduating-to-stable] * GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea [https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/261-sig-networking/]

Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth 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 * Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level [https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/03/23/strengthening-the-cloud-native-ecosystem-through-upstream-collaboration/] * KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report [https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/KCEU26-Transparency-Report.pdf] * Call for Proposals for KubeCon && CloudNativeCon North America 2026 closes May 31 [https://sessionize.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026/] * OpenChoreo v1.0 CNCF Sandbox [https://openchoreo.dev/blog/openchoreo-joins-cncf-and-ships-1-0] Links from the interview * Lucy on Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/intunderflow/] * Lucy's website [https://lucy.sh/] * [Article] Migrating Uber's Compute Platform to Kubernetes [https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/migrating-ubers-compute-platform-to-kubernetes-a-technical-journey/] * [Lucy Video] Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onn8eqhzyAQ] * Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud [https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/up-portable-microservices-ready-for-the-cloud/] * Peloton: Uber's Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads [https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/resource-scheduler-cluster-management-peloton/] * Odin: Uber's Stateful Platform [https://www.uber.com/dk/en/blog/odin-stateful-platform/] * Uber Batch platform [https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/modernizing-ubers-data-infrastructure-with-gcp/] * Apache Mesos [https://mesos.apache.org/] * Hyrum's Law [https://www.hyrumslaw.com/] * GKE Blue-Green nodepools [https://docs.cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/node-pool-upgrade-strategies?hl=en#configure-blue-green-upgrades] * Node Lifecycle Working Group [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/main/wg-node-lifecycle/README.md] * Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail [https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/grail/] * kubegpt.org [http://kubegpt.org] * Osquery [https://osquery.io/] * Uber Careers [https://jobs.uber.com/en/]

GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei

Amie Wei [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-amie/] is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon [https://gketurns10.devpost.com/]. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant. 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 1.36 codename Haru is here [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/22/kubernetes-v1-36-release/] * LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/03/24/welcome-llm-d-to-the-cncf-evolving-kubernetes-into-sota-ai-infrastructure/] * CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE) [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/03/23/cncf-introduces-a-new-recertification-program-as-kubestronaut-community-surpasses-3500/] * Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/03/23/agones-moves-to-the-cncf-a-new-era-for-open-source-multiplayer-game-infrastructure/] Links from the interview * Amie Wei on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-amie/] * GKE turns 10 Hackathon [https://gketurns10.devpost.com/] * Hackathon winner announcement [https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/winners-and-highlights-from-gke-hackathon?e=48754805&utm_campaign=CDR_0x4c813a5f_default&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Online boutique sample [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/microservices-demo] * Bank of Anthos sample [https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/bank-of-anthos] * The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE [https://devpost.com/software/cart-to-kitchen-gke-ai-assistant]

Kubernetes 1.35: Timbernetes, with Drew Hagen

Drew Hagen [https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-hagen/], the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35 [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/17/kubernetes-v1-35-release/], discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing. 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] Links from the interview * Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release) [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/17/kubernetes-v1-35-release/]