Spotify were early adopters of Docker, and wrote their own deployment tool to run it in production. David Xia from the Spotify platform team talks about Spotify’s engineering, challenges, how Helios worked, and migrating from it to Kubernetes. Adam and Craig also give a round up of the week’s news, in the form of a question.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Introducing GKE Advanced
Managed certs on GKE Ingress
Linkerd 2.3
PodSecurityPolicy support on AKS
Berglas from Google Cloud Platform
kubernetes-external-secrets from GoDaddy
Platform9 open-sources KlusterKit
CNCF and Alibaba offer free Cloud Native training to Chinese developers
Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
kube-iptables-tailer
The future of Cloud Providers in Kubernetes
Pod priority and preemption
Istio observability with Go and gRPC/protobuf microservices
- Beating JSON performance with protobuf

Links from the interview

Spotify
- This podcast on Spotify
- Spotify open source utilities on GitHub
Helios
- 2014 introduction video with Rohan Singh
Apollo: Java libraries for microservices
GKE Usage Metering: Whose line item is it anyway? with Madhu Yennamani and Yang Guan from Google, and David Xia from Spotify
- Episode 40 with Madhu Yennamani
GCP Firewall Enforcer
David Xia on Twitter

Spotify, with David Xia

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Spotify, with David Xia