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Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.

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• Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.

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• KubeCon North America 2025

• Kubernetes AI Conformance program

• Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek

• Helm4

• Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster                  

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance

• AKS Ingress Nginx Update

• AKS Automatic managed system node pools

• Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration

• KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

• CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program

• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration

• KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

• OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project

• Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project

• Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows

• KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026

• Kubernetes Software Conformance program

• kubectl

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API

• Kubernetes WG AI Conformance

• Kubernetes SIG Architecture

• Kubernetes SIG Testing

This week's interview was recorded live at Google Cloud Next, and features Alain Regnier and Camila Martins talking about recent developments in Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies. Including exploring highlights from KubeCon EU, and the value of community events.

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• Google Cloud Next

• KubeCon Europe

• Amazon Q for the Command Line

• Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server

• KubeCon China, KubeCon Japan, and KubeCon India

• CNCF Maintainer Summit and Maintainer Track at KubeCon North America

• LLM-d project

• VLLM

• Kubernetes Inference Gateway

• Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API

• Kubo Labs

• Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program

• DevOpsDays

• Kubernetes Community Days (KCD)

• KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025

• KubeCon EU 2025 Schedule

• SecNumCloud

• OpenTelemetry

• Docker Community and Docker Captains Program

• Elastic Community

• HashiCorp Community

• GKE Dataplane V2

• Kubernetes Network Policies

• GKE VPC-native clusters

• GKE Dashboards

• Docker's AI/ML Trends Report 2024

• eBPF

• Liz Rice

• CNCF Landscape - Service Mesh

• Container Storage Interface (CSI)

• Agones

• McDonald's AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next

• Target AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next

• Target AI session at Google Cloud Next

• Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote

Red Hat maintains a full set of container tools and libraries, bringing their pedigree in security and operating system engineering. The most notable of those tools, Podman, has had a surge in popularity this month, after Docker announced changes in their subscription model. Daniel Walsh leads the Red Hat containers team, and Brent Baude is the architect and primary maintainer of Podman.

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• Ira Glass in the wardrobe

• Announcing Google Cloud Deploy
• DORA Accelerate State of DevOps 2021 report
• Mirantis Flow "reinvents the datacenter"
  • Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel
• Deis Labs introduces Hippo
• Accelerating new features in Docker Desktop
• Distroless builds are now SLSA 2
  • Episode 155, with Priya Wadhwa
• CNCF DevSecOps radar

• Dan Walsh
• Brent Baude
• SELinux
  • Stop Disabling SELinux
  • SELinux Sandbox
• Project Atomic
• Red Hat patches for container registry rejected by Docker
• Docker client/server model
• Red Hat's container suite:
  • Podman
  • CRI-O
  • Buildah
  • containers/storage
  • containers/image
  • Skopeo
• Open Container Initiative (OCI)
• Podman features:
  • Drop-in Docker replacement
  • play kube, run a pod from YAML
  • generate kube, make YAML from local containers
  • Running rootless
  • systemd integration
  • Socket activated services
  • podman-compose
• Podman in Podman
• Podman in Kubernetes
• Builder in a Boston accent
• containerd, CRI-O and Docker in Kubernetes
• "Podman Desktop"
  • Docker changes desktop subscription model
  • Podman on Mac
  • Podman on Windows with WSL2
  • Remote client
  • Notes from the recent Podman Cabal meeting
  • Quay
  • GitHub discussion
• Daniel Walsh on Twitter
• Brent Baude on Twitter

Prodfiler is a new tool that provides fleet-wide full-system continuous profiling. It is in some ways the second act of its co-creator Thomas Dullien, who is an internationally-renowned reverse engineer and vulnerability researcher under the name Halvar Flake. Thomas joins us to discuss his career, what you should profile in a distributed system, and why you can't sell something with a negative cost.

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• Container blocakges
• Container houses

• Crossplane moves to incubation in CNCF:
  • CNCF coverage
  • Crossplane coverage
  • Episode 141, with Daniel Mangum
• Backup for GKE
• Google Cloud Next session catalog is live
  • Register here
• Kubernetes multi-cluster panel on October 6
• GKE updates: publishing with Private Service Connect, CSI driver for Filestore GA, SSL policies & HTTPS redirects for multi-cluster Ingress
• Azurescape: attack on Azure Container Instances by Unit 42 at Palo Alto Networks
• CVE-2021-25741 for subpath mount symlink attack (High)
• CVE-2020-8561 for webhook response logging (Medium)
• NCC Group weighs in on NSA guidance
• Snyk raises $530m
  • Episode 140, with Kamil Potrec
• Sqlcommenter merges with OpenTelemetry
• Kubermatic 2.18 and KubeOne 1.3
  • Episode 109, with Sebastian Scheele
• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.4
• 5 years of Envoy OSS
  • Episode 33, with Matt Klein

• Thomas Dullien/Halvar Flake
• Mathematik, with a K
• Stages of life vs. maths ability required, by Pearls of Raw Nerdism
• Vicky the Viking TV show
• Assembly Language Masterclass
• GEOS copy protection by Michael Stiel
• Time travel debugging
• "German hacker denied entrance into US for Black Hat training"
• Zynamics acquired by Google
  • BinDiff
  • BinNavi
• Project Zero
• "For whom?", asked R Morris Sr.
• optimyze.cloud's original business model
• Introducing Prodfiler
• Profiling
• The Datacenter As A Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines
• Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
  • Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure and Jaeger
• The mystery of Kubelet eating CPU and IOPS
• Fortran Web Framework: it's not irrelevant, really!
• Halvar Flake on Twitter

The most popular Ingress controller for Kubernetes is ingress-nginx, created in 2015 by Alejandro de Brito Fontes. Alejandro stepped down earlier this year, and the project is now maintained by a team including Ricardo Katz. Learn the history and what's in the new 1.0 release from a pair of South American self-proclaimed sysadmins.

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• New Zealand cinema worker left red-faced after voicemail blooper
  • Uncensored version on TikTok

• Amazon EKS Anywhere is GA and EKS Connector is in preview
• CNI 1.0.1
• Red Kubes makes Otomi self-service features free of charge
• Scale down mode and custom policy for Microsoft AKS
• k8ssandra moves from Helm to operator
• API server tracing in Kubernetes 1.22 by David Ashpole
  • Episode 113
• How Docker Broke In Half, by Scott Carey]
  • Episode 156, with Sebastien Pahl
  • Episode 110, with Adrian Ionel

• ingress-nginx
• Early computing
  • IBM PC/XT
  • Windows 95 Pinball
  • Flight simulator easter egg in Excel 97
  • Slackware Bible
  • Foca Linux
• History of Ingress
  • Ingress announced in Kubernetes 1.1
  • CoreOS Fleet
  • Service loadbalancer
  • kube-haproxy-router
  • Kubernetes Ingress proposal issue
  • ingress-gce
• ingress-nginx:
  • Alejandro's proposal for ingress-nginx
  • Original PR
  • Alejandro's bare metal cluster - then and now
  • Ricardo's early contributions
  • Note that NGINX Inc. have their own Ingress controller, for the open source or commercial versions of NGINX
    • Their comparison of the two versions
• Supporting open source:
  • Alejandro steps down as ingress-nginx maintainer
    • He actually tried earlier, but no-one else stepped up!
  • Core Infrastructure Initiative fund for supporting the Internet
  • xkcd on internet dependencies
  • Episode 116, with Alex Ellis
• The future:
  • ingress-nginx 1.0.0
  • NGINX Inc. commits more to open source
  • Gateway API
  • IngressClass and upgrades to the v1 Ingress API
  • ModSecurity and Curiefense
• Alejandro de Brito Fontes on Twitter
• Ricardo Katz on Twitter

Adevinta is an online classified ads company, operating many local brands. Daniel Megyesi is a DevOps engineer at Adevinta and maintainer of their central big data and Machine Learning platform, Unicron. Learn why they wanted to replace Mesos, how they aligned their engineering efforts to do so, and the choices that had to be made to provide an easy experience for their data engineers.

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• Dolores Park
• The Garden at Buckingham Palace
  • The fire at Windsor Castle
• Most currencies featuring the same individual

• Docker updates subscription plan
• Google commits $10 billion to advance cybersecurity
  • Detail blog from previous guests Eric Brewer and Dan Lorenc
  • Episode 155, with Priya Wadhwa
• ingress-nginx 1.0.0
  • NGINX Inc. commits to open source
• OpenTelemetry moves to Incubation phase
• IBM open sources Tornjak
  • Tornjak dog
• SUSE Rancher 2.6
• VMware announces Tanzu Application Platform
  • Infoworld coverage
• Rafay Systems raises $25 million
• Grafana Labs raises $220 million
  • Episode 122, with Torkel Ödegaard

• April Fools Proxy
• Adevinta, the world's largest online classifieds group after acquiring eBay's classifieds division
• Spark, Mesos, Chronos, AWS EMR
• Introducing Unicron, our big data and Machine Learning platform by Daniel Megyesi
  • Not the logo
• Gardener
• GKE Autopilot
• Argo CD and Argo Workfloads
• Spark Operator and Luigi
• 1:8 scale model DeLorean
  • 1:2 scale model Terminator
• Infrastructure Adventures, Daniel's blog
• Daniel Megyesi on LinkedIn

KEDA, the Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaler, is a project that adds superpowers to the Kubernetes horizontal pod autoscaler, including zero-to-one scaling. Celebrate KEDA reaching Incubation in the CNCF by listening to an interview with maintainer Tom Kerkhove from Codit. But first, learn about Craig's worst concert experience.

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• Correction to Episode 158: Mike Richards is no longer host of Jeopardy!
  • Troy meets LeVar Burton
  • The Chase (USA)
  • The Chase (UK)
• The Judds
• Charlie Watts: Rolling Stones drummer dies at 80
  • The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang tour
  • Moving stage

• KEDA moves to CNCF Incubation
• Kubescape from ARMO Security
• GKE adds OIDC identity provider and gVNIC support
• Gloo Mesh 1.1
  • Istio security announcement
  • Envoy security announcement
• Cron jobs and timezones in Kubernetes

• KEDA: Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling
• Bruges
• Codit
• Azure Service Fabric
• Azure Cloud Services
• Horizontal pod autoscaler
  • Custom metrics in HPA (added in Kubernetes 1.6)
• Promitor: bridge between Azure Monitor and Prometheus
• KEDA announcement from Microsoft
• Scaling a deployment
• Scalers
• Microsoft moves KEDA to the CNCF Sandbox
• External scalers
• KEP for adding scale-to-zero to HPA
• Knative scale to zero
• CNCF Sandbox announcement
• Versions 1.0 and 2.0
• Users
• KEDA on GitHub
• Tom Kerkhove on Twitter and his blog

Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He's now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market.

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• 40 years of the IBM PC
  • 5150 emulator and docs
  • What was it like to use?
  • Twitter thread about the cost of add-ons
  • 41 years ago: the story of the creation of the PC
• DONKEY.BAS
  • Play it on the 5150 emulator
  • Learn about it
  • Play it on the iPhone or Apple Watch
• Commodore 64
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Little Computer People
  • C64 vs IBM advertising
  • 6502 and derivative CPUs: the C64 used a 6510
  • Bender

• Litmus 2.0.0
  • Episode 56, with Evan Powell
• SPIRE security audit
  • Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
• Bovine by Nick Gerace
  • Rust Cloud Native
• Verify GKE services are up with dedicated uptime checks
• LFX projects open for (Northern) Fall term

• Talos (the OS)
• Linux from Scratch
• Talos (the robot)
• COSI
• Comparing k3s to vanilla Kubernetes on Talos
• Talos announcement on Reddit and Hacker News
• Talos Systems
  • Launch blog
• Brazilian jiu-jitsu
• COSI announcement from KubeCon EU 2021
• Andrew Rynhard on Twitter

What is a telecommunications provider, if not a very distributed system? Kubernetes is becoming an important engine for the world's telcos, especially as they roll out 5G. Vuk Gojnic leads the team rolling out Kubernetes across Deutsche Telekom (the parent company of T-Mobile), and he tells us how the worlds of telco and cloud have converged.

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• New Jeopardy! hosts
• The Price Is Right
  • Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore
  • Spay and neuter your pets

• eBPF Foundation announcement
  • Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato
  • Episode 133, with Thomas Graf
• Istio 1.11
• NSA & CISA release Kubernetes hardening guidance
  • PDF link
• Google Cloud Service Discovery adds GKE auto-discovery
• Troubleshoot GKE faster with monitoring data in your logs
• Sysdig announces new Prometheus integrations
• Nirmata takes $4m in funding
• CNCF Survey, part 2

• History of Montenegro
  • Balkans region
• Postal, telegraph and telephone services
• Cafe del Montenegro "archeological remains" (archeological remains of original Cafe del Montenegro)
  • CdM today
• Crnogorski Telekom
• Deutsche Telekom
• Crossbar switches
• O-RAN Software Community and source code
• Network function virtualization
• Natural selection
• Mobile base station
• DSLAM
• 5G
• Das blinkenlights
• Das Schiff
  • Das Boot
  • Cluster API
  • Flux CD
• OpenStack Ironic
• mIRC
• Vuk Gojnic on Twitter