Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Ubuntu and CEO of its parent company Canonical. Ubuntu is the Linux distribution of the Cloud. You can use it inside your containers, or you can use it as your node OS. Canonical packages Kubernetes for both the edge (MicroK8s) and the server (Charmed Kubernetes). Oh, and aside from that, Mark was the first African in space, spending 8 days on the International Space Station in 2002. Craig and Adam ask Mark about how this all happened, and how it has changed his perspective on technology.

Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:

• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: [email protected]
• twitter: @kubernetespod

Chatter of the week

• Wicked, the musical
• +LIVE+, the band
  • Craig’s video clips: All Over You, Run To The Water, Lightning Crashes

News of the week

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019
  • Linus Torvalds sees hardware headaches ahead
  • DiDi wins Top End User award
  • CKA and courses now in Chinese
• Introducing Workload Identity for GKE
  • Keyless Entry: Securely Access GCP Services From Kubernetes (Cloud Next ‘19)
• Knative 0.7.0
• Introducing Deep Learning Containers: Consistent and portable environments
• Launching Talos Systems
• Kubernetes Managed Apps from Platform9
• Istio CVE in JWT handling
• AKS now supports Standard Load Balancing

Links from the interview

• Mark Shuttleworth
  • Blog
  • Wikipedia
  • The Shuttleworth Foundation
• Thawte
• Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station
• Ubuntu
  • Wikipedia
  • no-name-yet.com: Mark announces his intention to launch a Linux distribution at EuroPython 2004
• Getting Ubuntu down to 30mb
• Snaps
• MicroK8s
  • Charmed Kubernetes for larger-scale deployments
  • OpenEBS, and Episode 56 with Evan Powell
• Anthos
• Sunrise and sunset from the ISS
• Mark Shuttleworth on Twitter