Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo

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/]

Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo

Janet Kuo [https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetkuo/], Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program. 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] Intro * KubeCon North America 2025 [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/] * Kubernetes AI Conformance program [https://github.com/cncf/k8s-ai-conformance] News of the Week * Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek [https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/26/kubernetes-v1-35-sneak-peek/] * Helm4 [https://helm.sh/docs/overview/] * Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster [https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/how-we-built-a-130000-node-gke-cluster?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b467053478&utm_medium=external&utm_source=podcast] * Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance [https://blog.aks.azure.com/2025/12/05/kubernetes-ai-conformance-aks] * AKS Ingress Nginx Update [https://blog.aks.azure.com/2025/11/13/ingress-nginx-update] * AKS Automatic managed system node pools [https://blog.aks.azure.com/2025/11/26/aks-automatic-managed-system-node-pools] * Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-eks-capabilities-for-workload-orchestration-and-cloud-resource-management/] * KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud [https://www.cncf.io/news/2025/12/03/forrester-kubecon-na-2025-retrospective-closed-and-open-source-battle-for-the-ai-native-cloud/] * CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program [https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2025/11/11/cncf-launches-certified-kubernetes-ai-conformance-program-to-standardize-ai-workloads-on-kubernetes/] * Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration [https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation] * KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/11/11/kserve-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/] * OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/11/11/openfga-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/] * Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/11/11/lima-becomes-a-cncf-incubating-project/] * Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows [https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/12/11/lima-v2-0-new-features-for-secure-ai-workflows/] * KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026 [https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/] Links from the interview * Kubernetes Software Conformance program [https://www.cncf.io/training/certification/software-conformance/] * kubectl [https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/] * Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API [https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/] * Kubernetes WG AI Conformance [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/wg-ai-conformance] * Kubernetes SIG Architecture [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-architecture] * Kubernetes SIG Testing [https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-testing]

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]