What is configuration as data, how is different from infrastructure as code, and why can’t anything just be itself anymore? We posed these questions and more to long-time Kubernetes contributor Justin Santa Barbara at KubeCon EU, and this episode is the result. Justin created the kOps project and now leads the team at Google that makes Kubernetes easier to consume.

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Chatter of the week

• #kubecovid
• Alhambra
• La Alhambra
• Cats of the Alhambra

News of the week

• Cloud Native at Microsoft Build
  • Azure Container Apps are GA
  • AKS updates
• Docker acquires Tilt
• Broadcom acquires VMware
  • FT coverage
  • Customer reaction from The Register
• Istio 1.14
• GKE Cost Estimator
• Goodbye to Katacoda
• Take the DORA survey or read the 2021 report

Links from the interview

• FathomDB
  • Meteor acquires FathomDB for its development platform
  • Sherlocking
• OpenStack
• kOps
  • GitHub
• Configuration management tools
• Infrastructure as Code
• JSON, YAML, Proto and INI
• Helm
  • values.yaml
• Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)
• kustonize
• kpt
• Package management
• Configuration as Data announcement blog
• Porch
• kpt functions
• Backstage
• Config Sync and Config Connector
• Kubernetes component configuration
• Cluster API
• Justin Santa Barbara on Twitter