More gripping than a crime scene in Las Vegas, the Container Storage Interface (CSI) lets vendors interface with Kubernetes. Saad Ali from Google led development of Kubernetes storage, including the CSI and volume subsystem. He joins hosts Adam and Craig for an in-depth look at how storage works in Kubernetes.

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Chatter of the week

Adam’s puzzle
How they made The Mandalorian
- Unreal Engine: Project Spotlight
Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
Lockdown music videos:
- Crowded House: Something So Strong
- Mostar Diving Club: Quiet Hands

News of the week

IBM Cloud Satellite
Google Cloud Buildpacks
Anthos for app modernisation via CI/CD and transforming legacy Java applications
Azure Container Registry adds dedicated data endpoints
Amazon ECR: multi-architecture containers
Amazon Cloudwatch adds Prometheus metrics
run:AI creates fractional GPU sharing for Kubernetes
The State of Cloud Native Development: CNCF survey (PDF)
VMware’s State of Kubernetes 2020 (PDF)
Gatekeeper Policy Management from SIGHUP
- Episode 101, with Tim Hinrichs and Torin Sandall
Datastax Astra on GCP and Sam Ramji’s blog
- Episode 98 with Sam Ramji
Introducing PodTopologySpread by Aldo Culquicondor and Wei Huang
Pod Security Policies at Square by Jason Price
Introduction to OpenTelemetry by Ran Ribenzaft
- Episode 97, with Yuri Shkuro
Kubernetes and Istio on the F-16 jet: CNCF case study
GKE logging introduction by Charles Baer and Xiang Shen
Helm and Kustomize, better together
- Helm, with Matt Butcher
- Kustomize, with Phillip Wittrock

Links from the interview

CSI: Storage, with Saad Ali

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

CSI: Storage, with Saad Ali