Emily Cai of Google is on the podcast today with hosts Brian Dorsey and Mark Mirchandani to talk about Kubernetes Config Connector, which went GA last month. The program helps users manage their Google Cloud resources in a way that is familiar for Kubernetes developers. Emily explains that it’s a great tool for Kubernetes developers looking to easily manage their infrastructure in one place. A platform team managing other teams is a perfect example of large-scale companies who could benefit from this tool, Emily explains.

Walking listeners through the development cycle before and after Kubernetes Config Connector, Emily shines some light on specific instances when this powerful tool could streamline the process of building your project, making it faster and more efficient. She elaborates on the ways Config Connector and Anthos can work together as well.

In the future, the Config Connector team hopes to cover all GCP resources, to create a more clear end-to-end experience for Kubernetes developers, and to allow Config Connector to be enabled straight onto a cluster.

Emily Cai

Emily is an engineer on Google Cloud’s Config Connector team focused on creating a declarative way for users to manage their non-Kubernetes resources. She has been with Google since November 2018 after interning twice (once in Irvine, once in Zurich). Currently living in Seattle, she is an avid frisbee player and winter sports enthusiast who is always open to new experiences.

Cool things of the week

• SQL Server, managed in the cloud blog
• Now, you can explore Google Cloud APIs with Cloud Code blog

Interview

• Kubernetes site
• Kubernetes Docs site
• Kubernetes Config Connector on Github site
• Kubernetes Config Connector Docs site
• Unify Kubernetes and GCP resources for simpler and faster deployments blog
• keeprunning.io blog
• Cloud SQL site
• Compute Engine site
• Pub/Sub site
• Terraform site
• Anthos site

Question of the week

How can I improve reliability/availability with the least amount of work?

• Regional Persistent Disks site
• High Availability Regional Persistent Disks site

Where can you find us next?

Our guest will be at Kubecon Europe and speaking at Next

Mark and Brian will also be at Next!