Tim Hockin, one of the engineers that started the Kubernetes project, joins Francesc and Mark to talk about all of the cool stuff coming up with Kubernetes 1.7.

About Tim Hockin

Tim was one of the first engineers on Kubernetes and GKE, where he has been involved in things like networking, storage, node management, API, plugins, and more. Before Kubernetes, he worked on Google’s internal systems, Borg and Omega, mostly on the node management side, and on Google’s machine management, hardware bringup, and kernels.

He has been contributing to open-source projects since 1995, when he first learned C.

Cool things of the week

• Cloud Shell’s code editor now in beta announcement
• How App Engine helped power Super Mario Run blog post
• New hands-on labs for scientific data processing on Google Cloud Platform blog post

Interview

• kubernetes.io is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
• Kubernetes 1.7: Security Hardening, Stateful Application Updates and Extensibility blog post
• Kubernetes 1.7 release notes
• Kubernetes StatefulSets docs
• Kubernetes API Aggregation GitHub issue
• Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions docs

Question of the week

When should I use a pod and when a container?

Tim Hockin’s slides are here.

Where can you find us next?

Francesc just released a justforfunc episode on Go Testing. He’ll be soon taking some well deserved holidays!

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.