Kat Cosgrove, a member of the Kubernetes steering committee and the release lead behind the infamous "Uwubernetes" naming, joins Emin Alemdar and Joey Stout to talk about what Kubernetes actually does well, where it goes wrong, and where people misuse it entirely. They cover self-healing and portability as the real wins, why rolling your own cluster is usually a mistake, the case against reaching for Kubernetes when you don't need it, how the project handles documentation and AI-generated contributions, and whether a Kubernetes 2.0 is ever coming.

Timestamps:
03:00 - Uwubernetes 

05:44 - Release leads

07:54 - What the hell is Kubernetes?

11:23 - OpenShift, K3S, and other alternatives

19:16 - Kubernetes: The ugly

24:45 - Kubernetes documentation

29:42 - Kubernetes: The good

31:35 - How to get involved with Kubernetes

35:12 - Kubernetes AI policy

38:21 - The Future of Kubernetes

44:07 - Closing statements

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Solutions architects Emin Alemdar and Joey Stout take on the internet's most argued-about policy language: Rego. They settle the pronunciation debate (Rego vs. Reego, OPA vs. OPA), break down how rule blocks actually evaluate using a pizza-toppings example, and make the case that most "Rego haters" just haven't used it enough for it to click. Along the way: debugging tricks with the Rego Playground and AI, underrated tools like Conftest and Regal, and the surprising places OPA shows up in the wild (Google Calendar, for one).

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00:21 - Welcome to the first episode of missionCTRL

03:02 - First: pronunciations 

04:40 - Rego and OPA overview

06:08 - JSON in, JSON out

09:34 - Explaining Rego with pizza

14:25 - Debugging Rego

18:20 - How and why to learn Rego

23:11 - Applying Rego and using other tools

26:36 - Rego resources

27:56 - Rego adoption

31:18 - Closing thoughts

Resources:

• Our OPA video: https://youtu.be/x_IfmWXlHbI?si=rB2Ddu6z5SPjBxu2
• Our OPA blog post: https://spacelift.io/blog/open-policy-agent-rego
• OPA: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/
• CNCF: https://www.cncf.io/
• Rego Playground: https://play.openpolicyagent.org/
• Conftest: https://www.conftest.dev/
• Regal: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/ecosystem/entry/regal