KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris was the biggest event of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to date, with over 12k participants. Have you missed it? We've got you covered! Join not one but two CNCF Ambassadors as they explore the latest and greatest highlights from the event that every tech enthusiast is talking about.  

But that's not all! We'll also zoom in on K8sgpt, a new entrant to the CNCF’s sandbox that uses generative AI to give Kubernetes superpowers to everyone. Does this open source project go beyond the GenAI hype and get us closer to diagnosing and triaging issues in plain English? Let’s ask the maintainers behind the project.

Our guest is Thomas Schuetz, a Principal Cloud Architect with a keen interest in cloud-native application delivery. Thomas teaches at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences, focusing on cloud-native technologies. Thomas is enthusiastic about open source projects, contributing as a Keptn GC Member and K8sGPT Maintainer, alongside his role as Co-Chair of the CNCF TAG App Delivery. He also brings a deep industry background from his past roles at Dynatrace and more.

The episode was live-streamed on 14 April 2024 and the video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr3viuhssdg

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Show Notes:

00:00 - Show intro

00:59 - Episode and guest intro

03:15 - Redis moves off open source

05:21 - AI white paper

07:47 - TAG App Delivery updates

12:15 - Istio beta release of ambient mode

12:57 - Fluent Bit v3 major release

13:57 - Keptn project updates

17:20 - OpenCost adds environment sustainability 

18:43 - OpenFeature adds client-side support with web SDK v1

20:08 - Perses 0.44 release

21:40 - K8sGPT founding team

24:07 - K8sGPT intro

27:36 - how K8sGPT works

31:28 - no vendor behind K8sGPT

36:10 - integration with multiple Gen AI services and local models

40:16 - K8sGPT current state and maturity

45:11 - K8sGPT traction

48:40 - K8sGPT acceptance into the sandbox and adopter companies

54:11 - how to reach out to Thomas Schuetz

56:09 - who’s behind K8sGPT

59:07 - where to follow K8sGPT  

1:00:17 - Outro

Resources:

https://github.com/k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt

https://k8sgpt.ai/

Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence whitepaper

TAG App Delivery update at KubeCon Paris

Fluent Bit v3.0 release

OpenFeature Web SDK v1

k8sgpt slack

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