Kubernetes Podcast from Google

In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm!

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• CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model

• Kubernetes Blog

• CNCF Blog - Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management

• Open Observability Summit

NAIS at NAV, with Hans Kristian Flaatten and Audun Fauchald Strand

• Audun Fauchald Strand

• Hans Kristian Flaatten

• NAV (Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration)

• Kubernetes Podcast 216: NAIS, with Johnny Horvi and Frode Sundby

• NAIS

• KubeCon EU 2025 Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government - Hans Kristian Flaatten, Lead Platform Engineer, NAV & Audun Fauchald Strand, Principal Software Engineer, NAV

• GKE release notes

Platform Engineering, with Max Körbächer and Andreas (Andi) Grabner

• Max Körbächer

• Andreas (Andi) Grabner

• Book: "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting modern platforms as a product" by Max Körbächer, Andreas Grabner, and Hilliary Lipsig

• Cloud Native Summit Munich

Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

• Ahmet Alp Balkan

• Ronak Nathani

• Kubernetes Podcast 249: Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

• Ahmet's Blog

• Introducing Multi-Cluster Orchestrator: Scale your Kubernetes workloads across regions

LLMs on Kubernetes, with Mofi and Abdel

• KubeCon EU 2025 talk: Yes You Can Run LLMs on Kubernetes - Abdel Sghiouar & Mofi Rahman, Google Cloud

• About the Gateway API

• Gateway API Inference Extension

• Deploy GKE Inference Gateway

SIG etcd with Ivan Valdes

• Ivan Valdes

• etcd.io

• SIG etcd on GitHub

Open Source Kubernetes, with Jago Macleod

• Jago Macleod

• Google Open Source: Kubernetes

• Schedmd

• Slurm

• Ray

• Run:ai from Nvidia

• Medium blog: "Deploy Slurm on GKE" by Abdel Sghiouar

• AI-Hypercomputer, xpk

• XPK (Accelerated Processing Kit, pronounced x-p-k) is a command line interface that simplifies cluster creation and workload execution on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). XPK generates preconfigured, training-optimized clusters and allows easy workload scheduling without any Kubernetes expertise.

• Cursor AI Editor

Dairy Farm Automation & Banking with Kubernetes, with Clément Nussbaumer

• Clément Nussbaumer

• Talos Linux

• Cluster-api

• Cluster API is a Kubernetes subproject focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.

• KubeCon EU 2025 Talk: "Day-2'000 - Migration From Kubeadm+Ansible To ClusterAPI+Talos: A Swiss Bank's Journey" - Clément Nussbaumer, PostFinance

• Kubeadm

• Kubeadm is a tool built to provide kubeadm init and kubeadm join as best-practice "fast paths" for creating Kubernetes clusters.

Being a First-Time KubeCon Attendee, with Nick Taylor

• Kubernetes The Hard Way

• K3s - "The certified Kubernetes distribution built for IoT & Edge computing"

• Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

• Kubernetes Up and Running

• Kubernetes Docs

• KubeCon EU 2025 Sponsored Keynote: The Science of Winning: Oracle Red Bull Racing's Formula with Open Source, Kubernetes and AI - Sudha Raghavan, SVP of OCI Developer Platform, Oracle

Nina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she's worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She's been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33.

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• 229 new things Google announced at Next 25

• MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator

• Golden Kubestronaut

• Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate

• The kube-scheduler-simulator

• K0s and k0smotron are now CNCF Sandbox projects

• Nina Polshakova

• Kubernetes Deprecation Policy

• Kubernetes Dev Google Group

• solo.io

• Istio

• API Gateway (General concept, linking to K8s Gateway API)

• Kubernetes Release Team

• GitHub

• Istio revisions

• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal (Link to publisher's site about the book)

• Kubernetes Maintainers Read Mean Comments (KubeCon EU 2024)

• Kubernetes 1.33 release blog (Link to release announcement blog)

• Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEPs)

• Sidecar Containers

• Multiple Service CIDR support (KEP link)

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• DRA support for partitioned devices (KEP link)

• DRA device taints and tolerations (KEP link)

• DRA: Prioritized Alternatives in Device Requests (KEP link)

• Kubernetes 1.33 sneak peak (Link to pre-release highlights)

• EndpointSlices API

• Kubernetes Gateway API

• node.status.nodeInfo.kubeProxyVersion is a lie (issue)

• KEP-4004: Deprecate the kubeProxyVersion field of v1.Node #4005 (KEP link)

• Kubelet

• Removal: Host network support for Windows pods (KEP link)

• Containerd

• SIG Windows

• HostProcess Containers (Windows)

• Removal: KEP-5040: Disable git_repo volume driver (KEP link)

• User Namespaces (Beta, Enabled by Default)

• CRI-O

• Runc

• In-place Resource Resize for Pods (Link to the alpha announcement, but now beta)

• Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

• KEP-5080: Ordered Namespace Deletion

• PyTorch

• Linkerd

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

• Tiffany Aching series

• Guards! Guards!

• Going Postal

• Kubernetes Slack

• New Contributor Orientation

Today we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins.

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• Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing distributed jobs as a single unit. Integrates with Kueue for better resource utilization.

• Kubernetes Blog: Introducing JobSet

• Kueue Project

• Google Cloud Next '24: Happening in Las Vegas, April 9-11. The Kubernetes Podcast team will be there!

• Google Cloud Next

• Kagent: A new open-source AI agent framework built on Microsoft's Autogen, designed for automating operations and troubleshooting in Kubernetes.

• kagent.dev

• Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)

• KRO Announcement Blogs

• Google Cloud Blog- Simplify the developer experience on Kubernetes with KRO

• AWS Open Source Blog - Introducing kro: Kube Resource Orchestrator

• AWS Open Source Blog - Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project

• Reddit thread - anyone tried kro for kubernetes resource management yet?

• The New Stack: Kubernetes Gets a New Resource Orchestrator in the Form of Kro

• InfoQ: Cloud Giants Collaborate on New Kubernetes Resource Management Tool

• CRD (Custom Resource Definition): Kubernetes CRDs - A mechanism within Kubernetes to extend the API.

• Knative: Knative.dev - A Kubernetes-based platform for building serverless applications.

• Terraform: Terraform.io - Infrastructure as code software.

• Helm: Helm.sh - A package manager for Kubernetes.

• KPT (Kubernetes Package Tool): KPT - A tool for packaging and managing Kubernetes configurations.

• Crossplane: cncf.io/projects/crossplane - An open-source project for managing cloud resources through Kubernetes.

• Common Expression Language (CEL): cel.dev - A powerful expression language.

• kubebuilder: kubebuilder on GitHub - A framework to build Kubernetes controllers, details available in Kubernetes documentation.

Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way.

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• CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level.

• CNCF Maturity Levels

• Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support.

• Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs)

• LinkedIn Engineering Blog- Stateful workload operator: stateful systems on Kubernetes at LinkedIn

• Kubernetes Blog: How we run Kubernetes in Kubernetes aka Kubeception

• Flannel: Flannel is a simple and easy way to configure a layer 3 network fabric designed for Kubernetes.

• Spanner: Google Cloud's globally-distributed database service.

• Kubernetes Architecture - learn more about the control plane from the Kubernetes docs!

• Kubernetes Resource Model

• Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)

• Ahmet Alp Balkan Blog: So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?

Lior Lieberman is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway.

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• NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes

• Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project

• Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF

• New Phippy Book Guidelines: Enhancing Community Access & Engagement | CNCF

• Lightning Talk: Why Service Is the Worst API in Kubernetes, & What We're Doing About It - Tim Hockin

• GitHub - kubernetes-sigs/ingress2gateway: Convert Ingress resources to Gateway API resources

• Migrating from Ingress

• Gateway API Inference Extension 0.1.0 release README on GitHub

• kubernetes-sigs/ingate - an Ingress & Gateway API Controller

• GAMMA - https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/mesh/

Kakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it's built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing it.

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The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live

The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects

The CNCF End User Case Study for KubeCon Contest

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Blog

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator Github

EKS Hybrid nodes

CoreWeave Nvidia GB200 NLV-72 GA

Links from the interview

KHI: Kubernetes History Inspector

DAG

WebGL

William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field.

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• RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management

• KubeCon EU 2025 schedule

• CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025)

• kubezonnet

• linkerd.io

• Linkerd on GitHub

• Linkerd architecture

• "Linkerd doesn't use Envoy" Blog Post (2020)

• envoyproxy.io

• Sidecar containers in Kubernetes

• Linkerd2 on GitHub

• Rust programming language

• Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks)

• Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services

• KubeCon NA 2024, "Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel"

• Cloud Native Startup Fest, "​​Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?"

John Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management.

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• KubeCon Japan CFP

• KubeCon India CFP

• Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here)

• CoreDNS

• Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes

• Control Topology Management Policies on a node

• NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPUs

• 2025 Kubernetes Community Day Events

This episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space.

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2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes

10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226, 227, 228, 229

CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary

Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary

Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode

LLM Gateway

Emily Fox on the podcast

Kubernetes Podcast on Bluesky

Kubernetes Podcast on LinkedIn

Kubernetes on Bluesky

Kubernetes Podcast on Youtube

Introduction to Distributed ML Workloads with Ray on Kubernetes

Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope.

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• Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More

• Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode

• Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

• Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog)

• SIG ContribEx Comms

• Kubernetes Contributor Awards 2023 (Frederico received an award last year)

• The Odyssey by Homer, Samuel Butler on Google Books

• Releases on Kubernetes.io

• Kubernetes 1.27: In-place Resource Resize for Kubernetes Pods (alpha)