Gone are the days of working at the same company for 50 years. Consultants and contractors bring specialised experience to many companies in short bursts. Steve Wade is an independent Kubernetes consultant and trainer, and he tells us how that became the life for him.

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Chatter of the week

• Queen
• Bourton-on-the-Water, fire in the sky
• Model village
• Model village inception

News of the week

• New GKE features:
  • eBPF and IP masquerading in GKE Autopilot
  • Dual stack networking
  • Time-shared GPUs
  • Confidential GKE nodes
• Paralus (by Rafay)
• Furiko (by Shopee)
• New CNCF Sandbox projects:
  • Clusterpedia
  • OpenCost
  • Aeraki Mesh
  • Curve
  • OpenFeature
  • Kubewarden
  • DevStream
• Traefik Hub
• Cyble's exposed Kubernetes clusters
• Bitnami index FAQ

Links from the interview

• Premier League
• Tesco
• Consultants and IR35
• KSOC
• Indian food
• Steve Wade (1987) on Twitter