The Continuous & Cloud Podcast

A sneak peek into UpCloud Kubernetes Service

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In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).

During this episode we discuss
  • What is a managed Kubernetes service?
  • What is UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS)?
    • Motivation behind UKS’ development
    What’s under the hood?
    How to create a Kubernetes cluster in UKS
  • What do you get from UpCloud that supports the Kubernetes service?
    • What do you get ‘out of the box’?
    What can you customise?
  • How has it been developing UKS?
    • Timescale and team
    Kubernetes community and open source projects
  • Observability and monitoring in UKS
  • What are the main benefits of using UpCloud and UKS?
  • When will UKS be available?
  • Example use case: using UKS with Terraform for IaC
    • Mentioned in the podcast

    UpCloud Kubernetes Engineer vacancy

    UpCloud CSI driver on Github

    About Ville Törhönen

    Ville (MSc, Tech) is working as a Product Owner at UpCloud. He is responsible for the upcoming UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS) product offering but also Developer Experience on the platform. Previously he’s been building various businesses and products on top of container technologies in companies like Unity, Noice and Redhill Games.

    About UpCloud

    UpCloud is a European Cloud Service Provider offering fast, easy-to-use, and reliable cloud products and services. UpCloud has 12 data centers around the globe. The company is a a strong believer in open source. That’s why all their services are available from public repositories. UpCloud’s mission is to make Infrastructure as Code easier for businesses of all sizes.

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    Ville Törhönen

    Jacob Lärfors

    Lauri Suomalainen

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