Akri is a recent open source project launched by Microsoft to manage edge devices. Kate Goldenring is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Edge OS team and an Akri maintainer. She joins our final show of 2020 to talk about how to use Kubernetes to manage devices that can’t run Kubernetes.

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Chatter of the week

• Reventure
• Kurstin X Grohl
• Puppy for Hanukkah (and story of)
• Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song

News of the week

• Pixie Labs acquired by New Relic; New Relic acquires Pixie Labs
• Docker Enterprise is now Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
• Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes
• Lens 4.0 released
• CVE-2020-8554: Man in the middle using LoadBalancer or ExternalIPs
• Volume Snapshot moves to GA in Kubernetes 1.20
• Weaveworks takes $36.65M in Series C
• Trilio takes $15M
• Anthos for Telecom puts Google partners apps on the edge
• CircleCI Server 3.0
• State of Software Delivery report
• New Microsoft AKS features
• Flink 1.12
• Cross-region replication in AWS ECR

Links from the interview

• Professor Kris Jordan
• Edge Computing
  • Edge, computing
• Internet of Things
• Akri
• Announcement blog post
• MCU (Microcontroller unit)
• Discovery protocols
  • ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum)
  • udev
  • Zeroconf
  • OPC UA
• TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)
• DevicePlugin API and deallocate
• #akri on Slack
• Akri on GitHub
  • Proposals
• Moose Protocol
• Kate Goldrenring on Twitter