Álvaro Hernández is the founder and CEO of OnGres a company that provides among other things a distribution of Postgres that runs on Kubernetes, called “StackGres”. Álvaro is also an AWS Data Hero and a passionate database and open source software developer   Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod   Note: This episode was edited on May 17th to remove a chatter segment from episode 219, which had been mistakenly edited into it. News of the week Kubernetes code cleanup KEP-2395: Removing In-Tree Cloud Provider Code - GitHub KEP Readme Remove gcp in-tree cloud provider and credential providers - GitHub PR Spotlight on SIG Cloud Provider - Blog The Future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes - Blog Kubernetes 1.29: Cloud Provider Integrations Are Now Separate Components - Blog Google I/O KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 Report KuberTENes Birthday Bash The Kubernetes Community takes over kubernetesio on X WG-Serving on GitHub DoK Community Ambassador Applications   Links from the interview Álvaro Hernández: LinkedIn Twitter/X OnGres PostgreSQL Stackgres.io Stackgres github Kubernetes Pg_repack Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community Data On Kubernetes 2022 Report Data on Kubernetes Whitepaper - Database Patterns - by CNCF TAG Storage Istio Apache Zookeeper Strimzi - CNCF Project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes Apache Kafka Postgres extensions The Kubernetes Operator Pattern Presentation about PostreSQL Hooks from PostgreSQL wiki OCI - Open Container Initiative Why Postgres Extensions should be packaged and distributed as OCI images