In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Alexandre Pauwels and Kevin Scheunemann at DevOps Days Boston to talk all about IDPs and Platform Engineering.    The discussion focuses on how organizations can build IDPs from open source tools and the how DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering teams work together.   * Check out the KubernetesBytes website: https://www.kubernetesbytes.com/ * Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Ads: * Ready to...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Paul Bruce and Don Luchini - the organizers of DevOpsdays Boston and talk about the value of community, what DevOps means to them and how the event has evolved over the years.    Listen in to learn more about what to expect when you attend one of these events or meetups in the future, and the guests also share their perspective around DevOps, Kubernetes and Platform Engineering  * Check out the KubernetesBytes website:...

In this Episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin and Ryan discuss Edge Computing and how Kubernetes and other platforms and distributions can help build better solutions for the edge.    Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Check out the KubernetesBytes website: https://www.kubernetesbytes.com/ Ads: * Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order. * Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner interview Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A. Brian walks through some of the design decisions, challenges and architecture of how Chick-fil-A uses Kubernetes at the edge in their restaurants. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Ready to shop better hydration, use "kubernetesbytes" to save 20% off anything you order. Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Madhuri Yechuri and talk about all things Nodeless Kubernetes and how users can leverage the concept of Just in Time compute provisioning to prevent wasted spend on their cloud bills. Madhuri talks about LUNA and NOVA - a couple of Elotl products that help users run a nodeless Kubernetes multicluster platform for their containerized applications.  Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes  Ready to shop...

In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Rob Croteau of Avesha. Avesha is behind the open source project KubeSlice which aims to enable admins to seamlessly connect multiple Kubernetes clusters no matter where they are located with a few command or clicks. Learn about the challenges teams face today with networking and how Kubeslice and avesha are trying to make connectivity for clusters simple.  Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes    Try Nom...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin go back to school after the summer break and talk about What is Kubernetes Observability? They talk about how Observability is different from Monitoring, what are the three pillars of Observability and the CNCF projects viewers can check out to get started with Kubernetes Observability!    Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes  Ready to shop better hydration, use my special link...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Kyle Forster CEO at RunWhen - a platform for troubleshooting Kubernetes with Generative AI assistance. The discussion starts by talking about LLMs and GPTs, and why everyone is building a ChatBot powered by AI. They then talk about how Generative AI can act as a co-pilot for SREs working with Kubernetes, and help them troubleshoot things faster.  Watch this episode to learn more about how AI can help you become the 10x engineer /...

In this episode Bhavin and Ryan interview Surya Oruganti, Founder of Argonaut. This episode covers the complexities and challenges production Kubernetes environments encounter, how teams are often wrangling with infrastructure and pipelines rather than enabling teams to focus on developing value. Surya helps explain why these problems led him to create the Argonaut project and platform to get teams off and running with full cloud native stacks with all the bells and whistles like GitOps ready...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with John Dietz and Jared Edwards - the co-founders of Kubefirst and talk about how users can accelerate their Kubernetes adoption by using Kubefirst. They talk about how Kubefirst allows users to leverage open-source tools and the GitOps principle to start writing code, without having to worrying about deploying CI, CD, Authentication tools manually. They talk about how tools like Kubefirst can reduce the complexity and speed up...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk with Shauli Rozen and Craig Box of ARMO security. The discussion focuses on how security mindsets and actions are shifting left to allow developers to include security practices earlier on in the application lifecycle. Also explored is the role open source plays in securing Kubernetes in DevOps and Platform teams.  * - 00:29 Introduction * - 04:36 Cloud Native News * - 15:26 Interview with Shauli and Craig * - 57:50...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Sachin Mullick and Peter Lauterbach - the Product Management team at Red Hat focused on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the open-source KubeVirt project and talk about how users can run containers and virtual machines side-by-side on the same Kubernetes cluster. They discuss the benefits of having a unified control plane for all your applications and the different features that enable users to run their applications in...

In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan chat with Kevin Backman from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Mike Wagner of Metify to talk about how MLB made the transition to baremetal Kubernetes with Anthos to support all 31 major league ballparks and their infrastructure for capturing on field statistics.   * 03:35 - Cloud Native news segment * 12:10 - MLB and Metify Interview * 49:06 - Takeaways Are you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon Europe in Amsterdam had close to 10000 attendees and shows a continuous increase in the adoption of containers and Kubernetes.   Below, you can find links to the things discussed during the podcast:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWKrMmneVFLjYkGSmeaTgTqqNZTY7A90UQEa2xZxnVE/edit?usp=sharing Are you ready to earn extra income...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Ryan Wallner talks with community organizer and solutions architect Michael O'Leary. Ryan and Michael tackle what it means to build and be part of a community as well as how to participate in meetups. Michael also spends some time talking about his Certified Kubernetes Admin study group and how he's been helping others get their CKA and expanding it to public members of the Kubernetes community, All this and more on this weeks episode!    Are you ready to...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Dan Arcari - a cloud and backend technologist at Zus Health to talk about how they use a combination of Kubernetes, ECS and Serverless  to run their home grown and off-the-shelf applications. Dan was employee #1 and has been involved in building the whole stack for Zus health, so the discussion focuses on everything from HIPAA and SOC2 to how you should chose the right tool for the right job. Listen in to learn more about the...

In this Episode, Bhavin and Ryan tackle the topic of serverless computing. Bhavin and Ryan try to help answer the basics of what serverless is, isnt and why the term can be so confusing. Show Links * https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-serverless * https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/what-is-serverless/ * https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/lets-stop-talking-about-serverless-cold-starts/ * https://keda.sh/ *...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Platform engineering expert Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec to discuss all things Platform engineering, what is it, and how it is different from DevOps. They also discuss when it makes sense to have a platform engineering team and how you can get started on your journey by building internal development platforms.  Show Notes:  - What is platform engineering?...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan sit down with Cloud Native expert Nigel Poulton of https://nigelpoulton.com/ to discuss WebAssembly and in particular its current and future role in the cloud native ecosystem. Nigel, Bhavin and Ryan discuss everything from "What is WebAssembly" to how it can run on Kubernetes with a WASM runtime called runwasi. Stay till the end to hear our new segment where we ask out guests a question that ChatGPT came up with for some good fun! Show...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christoph Hartmann - the CTO and co-founder of Mondoo about all things Kubernetes Security. The discussion starts by talking about Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) and then dives into Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and SBOM Attestation. They also talk about the open-source project "cnspec" and how it can help organizations scan their entire infrastructure, including VMs, containers, container registries, code repositories, etc for...

In the first episode of season 3, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Michael Guarino - the CTO of plural.sh about how plural helps users deploy applications on Kubernetes easily. They discuss the challenges associated with deploying applications consistently across different Kubernetes distributions, and talk about how Plural provides a unified solution that auto-generates Kubernetes manifests, HELM charts, and Terraform files and follows GitOps principles to deploy applications across Amazon EKS, Azure...

In this last episode of Kubernetes Bytes Season 2, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Service Mesh. You will learn all about the benefits of Service Mesh, how it helps reduce overhead for developers, the different deployment models (sidecar and Ambient Mesh), and the challenges and benefits for each. News: Trilio raises $17M - https://trilio.io/resources/funding-and-executive-update Snyk raises $196.5M at $7.4B valuation -...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk Cesar Saavedra of Gitlab about the importance of GitOps, DevSecOps and more with Kubernetes. They also cover what Gitlab has to offer in this particular space and what new features they have been working on. EKS/Container Marketplace as EKS add-ons https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-marketplace-for-containers-now-supports-direct-deployment-to-amazon-eks-clusters/ New – Announcing Amazon EFS Elastic Throughput This new...

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Alexander Mattoni - Co-founder and Head of Engineering at Cycle.io about When to use and When to not use Kubernetes. The discussion focuses on the challenges associated with Kubernetes adoption - On Day 0 and Day 2, and what are other alternatives available to organizations that are just looking to run their applications easily. We talk about how Cycle.io can help organizations build a simplified infrastructure stack to run their applications. Have a...

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Jonathan Phillips & Sean Pomeroy from Kubecost join us to talk about understanding the cost of Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes and the pods that run within the cluster are a large part of the cost story but it doesn't end there, networking, object storage, egress and more are part of the pull optimization story when it comes to cost. Hear what Jonathon and Sean have to say about cost, Kubernetes and what Kubecost can help you achieve. News...