Danielle Tal is a Program Manager at Microsoft and an integral part of the team responsible for maintaining Flatcar Container Linux. The team is contributes to Linux OS distributions and Linux Security within Azure and other upstream projects. With a background in supporting diverse enterprise cloud applications as a support engineer, Danielle has transitioned into a management role, overseeing Docker EMEA support before joining the Flatcar team.

Thilo Fromm is an engineering manager and works on Community Linux distributions and Linux Security at Azure. Thilo's team helps maintaining Flatcar Container Linux. He has given talks at FOSDEM, FrOSCon, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Cloud-Native Rejekts, and various meetups like Kubernetes Community Days.

Thilo started his career in embedded systems with hardware design and roll-your-own /from scratch embedded Linux, kernel and plumbing level development, and later virtualisation. After working for various cloud providers in engineering and management positions, he went full cloud native in 2019. Nowadays Thilo works on operating systems for cloud-native environments with a special focus on Flatcar Container Linux.

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Tim Irnich from SUSE shares his work with Edge computing, focusing on the telecommunications industry. He highlights the importance of standardization and interoperability across the industry, specifically focusing on the widespread adoption of Linux and Kubernetes. Tim also elaborates on Project Sylva, an initiative under the Linux Foundation, aimed at creating a standardized stack for the European telco operators. We also discuss challenges and opportunities presented by the vast array of open source projects within the CNCF landscape and the potential for AI to enhance network efficiency and reliability. The episode provides a comprehensive look into the collaborative efforts and technological advancements shaping the telecom sector.

00:00 Welcome

01:14 Open Source Adoption in the Telco Industry

02:14 Challenges and Standardization in Telco Networks

04:35 Curating Reliable Stacks for Telco

06:11 Project Silva: An Open Source Initiative

18:55 AI in the Telecom Industry

22:11 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

In this episode, David Aronchick, CEO and Co-founder of Expanso discusses his experiences and insights from working with Kubernetes since its early days at Google. David shares his journey from working on Kubernetes to co-founding Kubeflow and his latest project, Bacalhau, which focuses on combining compute and data management in distributed systems. Highlighting the challenges of data processing and privacy, particularly in edge computing and regulated environments, David emphasizes cost-saving benefits and the importance of local data processing. Throughout, privacy and regulatory concerns are underscored along with solutions for efficient and secure data handling.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:23 Early Days of Kubernetes

01:05 Kubernetes Community and Evolution

02:23 AI, ML, and KubeFlow

03:40 Current Work and Data Challenges

08:20 Privacy and Security Concerns

14:21 Real-World Applications and Benefits

20:42 Conclusion

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In this episode, we sit down with Victor Nagy of GitLab to discuss his role and GitLab's initiatives. Victor details the transition from using a custom solution to integrating Flux for smoother application deployment. Victor also talks about GitLab's commitment to the open source community, contributions to Flux, and becoming a potential maintainer. We also touch on what makes developer tools great, developer experience, and developments in AI and security, highlighting the rapid pace of innovation in these fields.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction

00:36 Key Open Source Projects: Flux and GitLab

01:17 Choosing Flux

03:42 Community Contributions and Future Plans

05:35 Deployment and Product Management

12:31 GitLab's Comprehensive Platform and Differentiators

18:38 Security and AI

19:43 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

In this episode, Marlow Warnicke, lead for the Slinky project, and Tim Wickberg, CTO of SchedMD, join us to discuss their work integrating HPC scheduler Slurm with Kubernetes. They provide background on Slurm's origins, its open source nature, and its evolution into Slinky to address Kubernetes's limitations in scheduling AI and HPC workloads. The discussion touches on the unique challenges in the MLOps space, the need for fine-grained resource control, and their collaborative efforts with various communities to enhance Kubernetes's efficiency. They also share the roadmap for Slinky and avenues for community collaboration and contribution.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Introductions

00:39 Overview of Slurm and Its Evolution

01:44 The Fusion of Slurm and Kubernetes: Slinky

04:14 Challenges in Kubernetes Scheduling

09:07 Unique Challenges in MLOps

12:58 Community Collaboration and Future Plans

16:41 Getting Involved and Final Thoughts

Katherine Druckman sat down with Sarah Christoph, lead maintainer of Porter, and Karen Chu, community manager for Helm, to discuss the realities of maintaining open source projects. We discussed the challenges maintainers face, including burnout, community building, and the importance of human interactions in sustaining projects. The conversation highlights strategies for creating sustainable workflows, such as documentation and contributor ladders, and the essential role of positive feedback and community support in maintaining morale. The episode also underscores the protective and inclusive nature of the open source community, shining a light on mentorship and the personal growth it fosters.

00:00 Introduction 

02:30 Challenges in Open Source Maintenance

03:43 Maintainer Burnout and Coping Strategies

08:10 Building Sustainable Open Source Projects

10:37 The Importance of Community and Mentorship

12:41 Recognizing and Crediting Contributors

14:14 The Human Connection in Open Source

21:22 Final Thoughts 

Join us as we sit down with Austin Parker, Director of Open Source at Honeycomb.io to discuss observability with OpenTelemetry, explaining its importance in cloud native software and discussing the OpenTelemetry project's growth and community contributions. He shares insights on the evolution and adoption of Open Telemetry, its impact on the software industry, and the collaborative nature of its development. 

00:00 Introduction

00:45 Understanding OpenTelemetry

02:48 The Importance of Observability

05:01 Challenges and Innovations in Observability

09:36 The OpenTelemetry Community

12:12 Challenges with Vendor Lock-In

14:29 Encouraging New Contributions

18:07 Recognizing Community Contributions

20:24 Final Thoughts

In this episode, we caught up with Abdel Sghiouar, a Developer Advocate at Google and the co-host of The Kubernetes Podcast. Abdel shared the latest developments in Kubernetes and AI applications, highlighting the unique challenges of running machine learning models on Kubernetes, particularly focusing on scalability and the context window in large language models. We also discussed the importance of working groups in overcoming these challenges and emerging concerns in AI security.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome Back

00:20 Abdel's Role and Podcast

00:36 Kubernetes and Cloud Native Space

01:14 AI and MLOps Discussion

02:20 Challenges with Large Language Models

04:48 Kubernetes Working Groups

05:55 Security Concerns in MLOps

09:48 Exploring Solutions and Community Interaction

18:23 Conclusion