A biweekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes community hosted by Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We cover Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and other developments in the ecosystem. Abdel and Kaslin on Twitter at @KubernetesPod or by email at [email protected].
Agent Substrate introduces a new set of primitives designed to address the unique challenges of running AI agents at scale on Kubernetes. Unlike traditional web services, agentic workloads are highly non-deterministic and exhibit significant idleness, often exceeding 90% while waiting for user input or model responses....
Kubernetes v1.37, themed "Garhwal" to honor the Himalayan roots of release lead Dipesh Rawat, introduces 67 enhancements focused on workload efficiency and cluster operations. Key updates include the beta release of Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale-to-zero for event-driven batch processing, gang scheduling for AI traini...
GreenOps prioritizes operational efficiency and resource optimization to reduce the environmental impact of cloud-native technologies, frequently utilizing cost as a proxy metric for sustainability. Niki Manoledaki, a staff platform engineer at Grafana Labs and core maintainer of Project Kepler, highlights how this ope...
The Kubernetes project has implemented a formal AI usage policy to address the rapid integration of AI tools in open-source development. This policy mandates that contributors disclose AI usage in pull requests, prohibits listing AI tools as co-authors to maintain legal compliance with Contributor License Agreements, a...
Scaling Kubernetes for high-churn, stateful sandbox environments requires unconventional infrastructure strategies to support hundreds of thousands of daily project builds. Lovable, a platform designed to assist non-technical users in building SaaS products, manages these workloads by bypassing standard deployment cont...
Kubernetes 1.36, codenamed "Haru," marks a significant milestone in the project's evolution, featuring a record-breaking 70+ Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals. Release lead Ryota Sawada highlights the transition toward more specialized, high-performance computing needs, specifically through the introduction of Workload ...
Uber’s transition from legacy in-house platforms like Peloton to Kubernetes involves migrating millions of compute cores while maintaining continuous service availability. Success hinges on a "make-before-break" deployment pattern and enforcing strict service portability by removing dependencies on specific hosts and s...
Kubernetes 1.36, codenamed Haru, introduces 70 enhancements, while the CNCF expands its ecosystem with the donation of LLMD and Agones, alongside the new CARE certification program. The discussion highlights the intersection of AI and cloud-native development through an interview with Amie Wei, a Senior Solutions Engin...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Kazlan Fields and Abdel Seguiwar interview Drew Hagen, a senior DevOps engineer and release lead for Kubernetes version 1.35. Drew discusses the "Timbernetes" theme, inspired by the world tree Yggdrasil from Norse mythology, and its logo featuring RPG-themed ...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, host Kaslin Fields interviews Janet Kuo from Google Cloud about the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program launched at KubeCon North America 2025. Janet explains that AI conformance is a superset of the existing Kubernetes conformance, designed to ensure AI workload...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Kaslin Fields and Abdel Seguiwar discuss recent news in the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem, including Knative reaching CNCF graduation, updates to LLMD and VLLM for large language models, the CNCF's Certified Mecherie Contributor certification, and Hea...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Abdel Sigiwar and Kaslyn Fields interview Antonio Ojea, a software engineer at Google and a core maintainer of Kubernetes. They discuss the evolution of networking from hardware-based to software-defined networks in Kubernetes, addressing the challenges of in...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, Kaslin Fields interviews Shannon Kularathna, a technical writer for GKE, about her experiences with SIG Docs, the Kubernetes documentation special interest group. Shannon discusses how she initially got involved in open source to prepare for job interviews and foun...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Kazlan Fields and Abdel Sigiwar interview Vyom Yadav, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.34 and a software engineer at Canonical. Vyom introduces the release theme, "Of Wind and Will," emphasizing the contributions of the Kubernetes community. The discussion c...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Kaslin Fields and Mofir Ahmed interview Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw about running large language models (LLMs) on Kubernetes. The discussion covers why LLMs present unique challenges compared to traditional web applications, focusing on resource usage, scale...
The Kubernetes Podcast presents a crossover episode with the SRE podcast, featuring Kaslin Fields, Steve McGhee, and Ben Good discussing Kubernetes for platform engineering. The episode begins with news, including the upcoming Kubernetes 1.34 release, Bitnami's move to a legacy repository for free images and Helm chart...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Kazlan Fields and Abdel Sigiwar interview Google Developer Experts Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glenn Yu at Google Cloud Next. The discussion covers platform engineering, GitOps, and AI, diving into topics like the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM) versus Terraform...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, hosts Abdel Sigiwar and Mofi Rahman interview Ricardo Rocha, the platform infrastructure team lead at CERN, about using Kubernetes for scientific computing. The episode begins with news items, including the introduction of Node Feature Discovery (NFD) in Kubernetes...
This episode of the Kubernetes Podcast, recorded live from Google Cloud Next, features interviews with Alain Regnier, CTO of KuboLabs, and Camila Martins, a Google Cloud GDE and Senior SRE at Starblock. The discussion covers highlights from KubeCon EU, including the Neo-Uniforce project, the prevalence of open telemetr...
In this episode of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, recorded live at Google Cloud Next 2025, hosts Abdel and guests Nick Eberts and Jon Li discuss Multi Cluster Orchestrator (MCO), a new open-source tool announced at KubeCon EU 2025. Jon explains the problem MCO aims to solve, addressing the limitations of the "infi...
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