In this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl.

Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked about Kubernetes, Sandboxes and Chocolate.

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OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project

CNCF TAG Elections

KubeCon India

Kubernetes Community Days global events

Lovable

Cilium

Etcd

Cloudflare Sandbox

Agent Sandbox (Kubernetes)

OpenClaw

Claude

OpenAI

Bun toolkit for Javascript

gVisor

Firecracker

Kata Containers

Vitess

Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix.

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• Etcd version 3.7.0 is out

• Merge Forward Community

• Truepositive

• Kubernetes 1.35 codename Haru

• Release theme and logo

• Logo designer

• User Namespaces

• Workload API

• Workload Aware Scheduling (WAS)

• DRA features graduating to Stable

• GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth it.

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• Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level

• KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report

• Call for Proposals for KubeCon && CloudNativeCon North America 2026 closes May 31

• OpenChoreo v1.0 CNCF Sandbox

• Lucy on Linkedin

• Lucy's website

• [Article] Migrating Uber's Compute Platform to Kubernetes

• [Lucy Video] Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes

• Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud

• Peloton: Uber's Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads

• Odin: Uber's Stateful Platform

• Uber Batch platform

• Apache Mesos

• Hyrum's Law

• GKE Blue-Green nodepools

• Node Lifecycle Working Group

• Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail

• kubegpt.org

• Osquery

• Uber Careers

Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant.

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• Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here

• LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project

• CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE)

• Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project

• Amie Wei on LinkedIn

• GKE turns 10 Hackathon

• Hackathon winner announcement

• Online boutique sample

• Bank of Anthos sample

• The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE

Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.

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• Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.

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• KubeCon North America 2025

• Kubernetes AI Conformance program

• Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek

• Helm4

• Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance

• AKS Ingress Nginx Update

• AKS Automatic managed system node pools

• Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration

• KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

• CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program

• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration

• KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

• OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project

• Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project

• Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows

• KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026

• Kubernetes Software Conformance program

• kubectl

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API

• Kubernetes WG AI Conformance

• Kubernetes SIG Architecture

• Kubernetes SIG Testing

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.

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News of the week

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation

• llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference

• vllm-project/semantic-router on github

• Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)

• Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Links from the interview

• Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way

• MiniKube

• Kind

• Docker Compose

• Docker Swarm

• GKE Autopilot

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• Google Cloud TPUs

• Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)

• Jax (Machine Learning Framework)

• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

• Serverless on Google Cloud

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• Kubectl-ai

• Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

• Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta

• In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers

• GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.

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• GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters

• KCD H1 2026

• Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project

• Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn

• Antonio Ojea on X

• Virtual Networks

• Kubernetes Networking

• Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• Kubernetes Gateway API

• Calico

• Cilium

• Multi-Service CIDR

• DRANet

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation.

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• Reddit Post
• KubeCon NA
• KubeCon NA Colo events
• Jeager v2
• Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE

• Shannon Kularathna
• Kubernetes SIG Docs
• Kubernetes Documentation
• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
• Kubernetes Code of Conduct
• SIG Contributor Experience
• Kubernetes Blog
• Join the Kubernetes Slack
• Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events
• SIG Docs Meetings
• Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository
• Good First Issues for kubernetes/website
• Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website

Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version.

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• GKE 10 years Hackathon

• Golden Kubestronauts 100 members

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple

• DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation

• Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation

• Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose

• Vyom Yadav

• Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak