If you’re running on-prem, and you say set up a Service type=LoadBalancer, what happens? Does your cluster call your NOC and have them order you a Juniper router? MetalLB is a popular answer to that question. Your hosts discuss load balancing with MetalLB’s author, Google Cloud SRE David Anderson.

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News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.13 released
  • Critical vulnerability in all Kubernetes versions
• Kubernetes is the most popular skill in tech, according to Indeed’s Hiring Lab
• Envoy graduates to a full CNCF project
• AWS re:Invent
  • Firecracker MicroVM
    • Integration with containerd
    • Instructions for running on GCE with nested virtualisation
  • AWS App Mesh
  • In-place EKS upgrades! Windows support! (Citation needed)
• Istio on GKE released
• Agones 0.6.0 released
  • Episode 26 with Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena

Links from the interview

• MetalLB
  • BGP and OSPF
  • Katran, a load balancer from Facebook
• David Anderson on Twitter