Deploy your own tech stack: Wes and Scott are joined by Kubernetes expert David Flanagan to be schooled on how Kubernetes, Docker and even WASM containers work.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:55 Should developers know how to run their own servers?
• 04:57 What is “bare metal”?
• 11:49 What the hell is Kubernetes?
• 12:25 Why would somebody need Kubernetes?
• 15:37 Using Kubernetes to spin up different instances on cloud providers.
• etcd

16:43 Kubernetes managing traffic spikes.

18:46 How much downtime can you handle?

22:11 What exactly is a container?

24:06 What containers do you prefer?

Docker

Containerd

25:28 Some additional terminology.

OCI Open Container Initiative

26:43 What about WASM?

WASM WebAssembly

29:31 Building a Docker container.

31:11 Why would someone want to use a WebAssembly container?

32:12 Are people shipping this technology?

33:36 What functions would you put in WASM?

36:57 How does someone make a WASM image?

39:22 A little more about Spin.

Fermyon Spin

39:56 What type of processors are used in these servers?

42:27 What are home servers running on?

Turing Pi 2

Daniel Mangum

Universal Blue

46:40 How should someone get started with Kubernetes?

Kubernetes.io

Rawkode YouTube

Kubesimplify

Learnk8s

48:51 Infrastructure as code.

CDK for Terraform

GraalVM

55:19 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

• David:
  • Golem.cloud

Restate.dev

Shameless Plugs

• David:
  • Rawkode YouTube

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