Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with John Dietz and Jared Edwards - the co-founders of Kubefirst and talk about how users can accelerate their Kubernetes adoption by using Kubefirst. They talk about how Kubefirst allows users to leverage open-source tools and the GitOps principle to start writing code, without having to worrying about deploying CI, CD, Authentication tools manually. They talk about how tools like Kubefirst can reduce the complexity and speed up SDLC for organizations that are just getting started with Kubernetes. Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping. 00:30 Introduction 04:55 Cloud Native News 12:00 Interview with John and Jared 56:25 TakeawaysNews:  https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/06/21/smartx-fast-and-available-iomesh-kubernetes-native-storage-software/ https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-predicts-how-the-kubernetes-community-will-evolve/ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/aws-extends-kubecost-alliance-to-rein-in-k8s-costs/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/06/aws-eks-kubernetes-chill-vibes/ https://www.newswire.com/news/fairwinds-launches-open-source-tool-for-base-image-detection-22060270 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/virtana-acquires-cloud-and-kubernetes-observability-solution-powered-by-advanced-ai-and-open-source-telemetry-collection-opscruise-301852142.html https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/journeys/118 https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-operators-the-real-reason-your-boss-is-smiling/Show links: https://kubefirst.io/ https://ngrok.com/ https://docs.kubefirst.io/aws/faq https://kubefirst.io/slack

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk with Shauli Rozen and Craig Box of ARMO security. The discussion focuses on how security mindsets and actions are shifting left to allow developers to include security practices earlier on in the application lifecycle. Also explored is the role open source plays in securing Kubernetes in DevOps and Platform teams.  - 00:29 Introduction - 04:36 Cloud Native News - 15:26 Interview with Shauli and Craig - 57:50 Takeaways Try Nom Nom today, go to https://trynom.com/kubernetesbytes and get 50% off your first order plus free shipping.Save $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to fool.com/kubernetesbytes and start your investing journey today!*$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then currentlist price.Show Links - https://landing.armosec.io/state-of-kubernetes-open-source-security-2022  - https://www.cncf.io/projects/kubescape/  - https://www.jit.io/lp/automate-cloud-container-security-by-deploying-trivy-lp  - https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-open-source-report/2022 - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/richard-seroter-on-shifting-down-vs-shifting-left/ - https://www.armosec.io/blog/unraveling-the-state-of-kubernetes-security-2023/ - https://armosec.io/ - https://github.com/kubescape/kubescape Craig's cast vote for "Sandra Bullock": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(1995_film)  Shauli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaulirozen Craig: https://twitter.com/craigboxNews Links  - https://winbuzzer.com/2023/05/30/microsoft-introduces-azure-linux-for-its-kubernetes-service-xcxwbn/  - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3696939/yugabyte-adds-multiregion-kubernetes-support-to-yugabytedb-218.html  - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/context-aware-kspm-pingsafe-helps-181600047.html   - https://cloudnativenow.com/features/why-you-need-a-kubernetes-bill-of-materials-kbom/   - ACS Cloud Service - https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/announcing-limited-availability-of-advanced-cluster-security-cloud-service - Teleport Assist - https://goteleport.com/features/assist/ - Alcion - $8 million in seed funding and an AI-forward, security-heavy take on backup - starting with M365 - Kasten co-founders with another backup company -  https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366538893/Alcion-applies-AI-security-focus-to-Microsoft-365-backup - Mindsdb - https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-raises-25-million-led-by-mayfield-to-supercharge-developers-with-its-cloud-for-serving-artificial-intelligence-logic  - NVIDIA - https://itnext.io/run-more-pods-per-gpu-with-nvidia-multi-instance-gpu-d4f7fb07c9b5 - Red Hat Dev Hub - based on Backstage - EA later in June and GA later this year. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releas

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Sachin Mullick and Peter Lauterbach - the Product Management team at Red Hat focused on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the open-source KubeVirt project and talk about how users can run containers and virtual machines side-by-side on the same Kubernetes cluster. They discuss the benefits of having a unified control plane for all your applications and the different features that enable users to run their applications in production. They also talk about some customers that have implemented this technology in production. Listen to learn more about how you can get started with KubeVirt and run your VMs alongside your Kubernetes pods on your Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters.    03:27 - News Segment 13:54 - KubeVirt Interview 01:06:12 - TakeawaysThe Motley Fool: Save $110 off the full list price of Stock Advisor for your first year, go to http://www.fool.com/kubernetesbytes and start your investing journey today! *$110 discount off of $199 per year list price. Membership will renew annually at the then current list pricShow Notes:  1. Kube by Example - https://kubebyexample.com/ 2. Ask An OpenShift Admin - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaR6Rq6Z4IqdsG6b09q4QIv_Yq5fNL7zh 3. https://kubevirt.io/ 4. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/virtualization  Cloud-Native News:  1. New Security Startup - Stacklok - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/kubernetes-and-sigstore-founders-raise-17-5m-to-launch-software-supply-chain-startup-stacklok/ 2. Traefik Lab announces Traefik Hub - Also raised $11M https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/17/traefik-labs-launches-traefik-hub-a-kubernetes-native-api-management-service/ 3. KSOC releases the KBOM standard - https://tech.einnews.com/pr_news/629861155/ksoc-releases-the-first-kubernetes-bill-of-materials-kbom-standard 4. Upbound announces managed Crossplane service - https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/upbound-managed-control-plane/ 5. Kubernetes 1.27 StatefulSet auto deletion for PVCs to beta https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/05/04/kubernetes-1-27-statefulset-pvc-auto-deletion-beta/ 6. Cost reduction CAST AI company focuses on reducing compute costs running generative AI models on k8s https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/18/kubernetes-firm-cast-ai-adds-support-reducing-generative-ai-deployment-costs/  7. Vault secret store operator https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-vault-operator-manages-kubernetes-secrets/  8. Managed Kafka or Run it yourself ? https://thenewstack.io/kafka-on-kubernetes-should-you-adopt-a-managed-solution/  9. Cool usecase - edge k8s - robots picking fruit - https://thenewstack.io/fruit-picking-robots-powered-by-kubernetes-on-the-edge/  10. Knative 1.10 release https://knative.dev/blog/releases/announcing-knative-v1-10-release/ (4-25 missed it)

In this episode, Bhavin and Ryan chat with Kevin Backman from Major League Baseball (MLB) and Mike Wagner of Metify to talk about how MLB made the transition to baremetal Kubernetes with Anthos to support all 31 major league ballparks and their infrastructure for capturing on field statistics.   03:35 - Cloud Native news segment 12:10 - MLB and Metify Interview 49:06 - TakeawaysAre you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!MLB Article https://technology.mlblogs.com/anthos-on-bare-metal-how-mlb-turned-ball-parks-into-on-prem-k8-clusters-295031253a33   News Kubecon Sessions are live - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2PyrvCoOii4rAopBswfz1p7 Kubecost Cloud Public Beta  - https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/05/09/2664089/0/en/Kubecost-Announces-Public-Beta-of-Kubecost-Cloud.html Group Volume Snapshots - Crash consistent https://kubernetes.io/blog/2023/05/08/kubernetes-1-27-volume-group-snapshot-alpha/ Coinbase uses Kubernetes to run staking nodes - https://www.coinbase.com/blog/operating-staking-nodes-on-kubernetes Kubernetes 1.27: StatefulSet start ordinal simplifies migration https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/04/26/introducing-sessionize-a-new-cfp-platform-for-cncf-events  https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinar-run-wasm-shim-this-way  https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/opinion/Takeaways-and-emerging-trends-from-KubeCon-Europe-2023  https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/backup-for-gke-concepts-part-1  https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-announces-early-access-of-ndk

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon Europe in Amsterdam had close to 10000 attendees and shows a continuous increase in the adoption of containers and Kubernetes.  Below, you can find links to the things discussed during the podcast:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWKrMmneVFLjYkGSmeaTgTqqNZTY7A90UQEa2xZxnVE/edit?usp=sharingAre you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Ryan Wallner talks with community organizer and solutions architect Michael O'Leary. Ryan and Michael tackle what it means to build and be part of a community as well as how to participate in meetups. Michael also spends some time talking about his Certified Kubernetes Admin study group and how he's been helping others get their CKA and expanding it to public members of the Kubernetes community, All this and more on this weeks episode!   Are you ready to earn extra income from sharing your expert opinion? Head over to userinterviews.com/hello to sign up and participate today!Show Links https://community.f5.com https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way https://www.meetup.com/boston-kubernetes-meetup/ https://kubebyexample.com/

Dan Arcari, cloud and backend technologist at Zus Health, discusses their use of Kubernetes, ECS, and Serverless in healthcare. Topics include choosing the right tools, HIPAA and SOC2 compliance, managing infrastructure, application deployment, and the benefits of using tools to solve problems.

In this Episode, Bhavin and Ryan tackle the topic of serverless computing. Bhavin and Ryan try to help answer the basics of what serverless is, isnt and why the term can be so confusing. Show Links https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/cloud-native-apps/what-is-serverless https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/what-is-serverless/ https://www.readysetcloud.io/blog/allen.helton/lets-stop-talking-about-serverless-cold-starts/ https://keda.sh/ https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/microservices/what-is-knative https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/serverless/serverless-comparison https://workers.cloudflare.com/ https://blog.back4app.com/cloudflare-vs-heroku-which-is-the-best-option/ https://www.bmc.com/blogs/serverless-faas/ https://world.hey.com/dhh/don-t-be-fooled-by-serverless-776cd730

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Platform engineering expert Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec to discuss all things Platform engineering, what is it, and how it is different from DevOps. They also discuss when it makes sense to have a platform engineering team and how you can get started on your journey by building internal development platforms.  Show Notes:  - What is platform engineering? - What is an internal developer platform? - What is Dynamic Configuration Management? - Platform Engineering community - PlatformCon 2023 - Luca’s LinkedIn and Twitter Cloud Native News:  InfluxData Series E round - https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/13/influxdata-lands-51m-to-grow-its-time-series-database-offerings Cloud Native Security Con - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2NQ-Zi_k5qVmZyxSmLBzM6V Adrian's Platform engineering blog - https://adrianco.medium.com/platform-engineering-teams-done-right-b3b3d4a8ad23 Amazon EKS Anywhere on SNOW - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-amazon-eks-anywhere-on-snow Kelsey Hightower affirms databases on k8s - https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1624081136073994240 NetApp discontinues astra data store https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/01/25/netapp-astra-data-store/ Edge computing trends 2023 - https://technologymagazine.com/articles/the-cutting-edge-edge-computing-trends-to-watch-in-2023

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan sit down with Cloud Native expert Nigel Poulton of https://nigelpoulton.com/ to discuss WebAssembly and in particular its current and future role in the cloud native ecosystem. Nigel, Bhavin and Ryan discuss everything from "What is WebAssembly" to how it can run on Kubernetes with a WASM runtime called runwasi. Stay till the end to hear our new segment where we ask out guests a question that ChatGPT came up with for some good fun! Show Links This article will show you how to create a "hello world" Wasm app and use Docker tools to build and deploy it" https://nigelpoulton.com/getting-started-with-docker-and-wasm/ This article explains runwasi: https://nigelpoulton.com/what-is-runwasi/ This is the Microsoft article that explains using Wasm nodes in AKS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-wasi-node-pools Runwasi: https://github.com/containerd/runwasi  Scale to Zero: https://dzone.com/articles/scale-to-zero-with-kubernetes