Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Justin Lee, Principal Solutions Engineer at Confluent, about all things Kafka on Kubernetes. The discussion focuses on what Kafka is, how it helps developers build applications, and then dives into how developers or operators can deploy and run Kafka on Kubernetes using either Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) operator from Confluent, or using Strimzi, an open source alternative. The hosts and Justin talk about the different custom resources needed for running Kafka on Kubernetes and then discuss best practices and case studies around the same. Have a listen and leave us a review for the podcast series! Show Links: Isovalent raises $40M Series B round - https://member.fintech.global/2022/09/09/open-source-technologies-dev-isovalent-nets-40m/ EKS Anywhere Curated Packages - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/08/amazon-eks-anywhere-curated-packages-generally-available/ AWS Karpenter Cluster Consolidation - https://karpenter.sh/preview/tasks/deprovisioning/ VMware Explore - VMware Tanzu updates - https://www.storagereview.com/news/vmware-tanzu-gets-aria-mission-control-kubernetes-grid-updates Kubecon EU Call For Papers now Open - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/cfp/ CloudCasa and ONDAT partnership - https://www.catalogicsoftware.com/press-releases/cloudcasa-by-catalogic-and-ondat-announce-partnership-to-protect-kubernetes/ Google adds Hyperdisk support - https://containerjournal.com/features/google-adds-additional-storage-service-for-gke/ Kubernetes Complexity - https://driftingin.space/posts/complexity-kubernetes Confluent for Kubernetes - https://docs.confluent.io/operator/current/overview.html Strimzi - Kafka on Kubernetes - https://strimzi.io/ Upcoming Current (Data Streaming Summit hosted by Confluent): https://2022.currentevent.io/website/39543/welcome Confluent for Kubernetes Quick Start: https://docs.confluent.io/operator/current/co-quickstart.html Confluent Home Page: https://www.confluent.io/ Confluent Developer Podcast: https://developer.confluent.io/podcast/

In this Episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into GitOps. You will learn about how GitOps came to be, what GitOps is, what tools are used to accomplish GitOps and what the benefits of adopting GitOps on your team will be. Where to get started https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/ https://docs.gitops.weave.works/docs/getting-started/ https://github.com/weaveworks/awesome-gitops Links / Background: https://about.gitlab.com/topics/gitops/ https://www.weave.works/technologies/gitops/ https://developers.redhat.com/topics/gitops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2W3dJUxpR0 https://www.youtube.com/c/DevOpsToolkit/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EpcWp0THw https://github.com/weaveworks/awesome-gitops https://www.gitops.tech/ https://www.weave.works/technologies/gitops/ https://about.gitlab.com/topics/gitops/ News SBOM 101 - https://sysdig.com/blog/sbom-101-software-bill-of-materials/  CSI inline volumes - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/29/csi-inline-volumes-ga/  The ultimate list of open source cloud native tools - https://containerjournal.com/features/the-ultimate-list-of-open-source-cloud-native-tools/ K8s 1.25 is out - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/23/kubernetes-v1-25-release Registry.k8s.io https://github.com/kubernetes/k8s.io/wiki/New-Registry-url-for-Kubernetes-(registry.k8s.io) Registry.k8s.io https://groups.google.com/a/kubernetes.io/g/dev/c/DYZYNQ_A6_c/m/oD9_Q8Q9AAAJ?pli=1 SIG Storage Spotlight - https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2022/08/22/sig-storage-spotlight-2022/ GitLab Release 15.3 - GitOps features free - https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/22/gitlab-15-3-released

Ryan (@wallywalls22) and Bhavin (@bhavin04890) talk to Brendan Burns (@brendandburns), co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project and corporate vice president for Azure cloud-native open source, and Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan (@ganeshkumar_av), Software Engineer in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team about community, Kubernetes and open-source at Microsoft. They also discuss how Ganesh was able to start as an intern and work his way into a fun full-time position with Azure Kubernetes Service. Come listen and learn about all of this and more! Show Links: KEDA https://keda.sh/ Virtual Kubelet https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet AKS enhancements - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-kubernetes-service-aks-updates-for-seamless-developer-and/ba-p/3407089 Container Apps GA https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-container-apps-general-availability/ba-p/3416885 MS Build Sessions  https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/cf62806e-b0a6-48ca-9664-92298b049abf https://mybuild.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/b8cb89fa-f065-4711-8ec2-91b41bb39acf

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk to the SIG Storage COSI Co-Lead Sid Mani about the Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) project, as it enters the Alpha phase of the maturity cycle. The discussion dives into the need for a different Object Storage standard, how it works with Kubernetes, the vision of the community, and how people/vendors can contribute to the ecosystem. Show links Acorn Labs - https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/open-source-acorn-takes-a-new-approach-to-deploy-cloud-native-application-on-kubernetes/ Ghost Security Emerges from Stealth, Announces Initial $15M in Funding at $50M validation - https://ghost.security/blog/ghost-security-emerges-from-stealth-announces-initial-15m-in-funding?hsLang=en Granulate launches a new free tool for optimizing K8s costs called gMaestro - https://sdtimes.com/kubernetes/granulate-launches-new-free-tool-for-optimizing-kubernetes-costs/ What's new with Kubernetes 1.25 - https://sysdig.com/blog/kubernetes-1-25-whats-new/ Kubernetes volumes for beginners - https://dev.to/iarchitsharma/kubernetes-volume-explained-for-beginners-3doj Intro to eBPF - https://chrisshort.net/intro-to-ebpf XKCD link - https://xkcd.com/927/ Kubernetes CSI 101 episode - https://anchor.fm/kubernetesbytes/episodes/Container-and-Kubernetes-Storage-101-e1647o1/a-a6cgu6a

In this week's episodes Bhavin and Ryan dive into the three different operators that MongoDB has for deploying and managing MongoDB with Kubernetes with Developer Advocates Joel Lord & Cedric Clyburn. Come learn about the different ways you can get started using MongoDB with Kubernetes, lessons learned getting started and how to use MongoDB's multi-cloud database service, Atlas. Show Links News Mirantis acquires Amazee.io: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220726005393/en/Mirantis-Acquires-amazee.io-the-Only-ZeroOps-Application-Delivery-Hub-Built-by-Developers-for-Developers Cisco buys Banzai cloud: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/cisco-buys-kubernetes-start-up-banzai-cloud-to-fuel-cloud-native-connectivity Amazon Detective adds support for Amazon EKS clusters: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-detective-supports-kubernetes-workloads-on-amazon-eks-for-security-investigations/ GigaOM report for Cloud Native Kubernetes Storage - https://portworx.com/resource/gigaom-radar-for-cloud-native-kubernetes-data-storage/ Gateway API Beta https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/07/13/gateway-api-graduates-to-beta/ Thinking about Kubernetes-native way for data protection https://thenewstack.io/identifying-a-kube-native-approach-to-data-protection/ 3 database tools from CNCF July 28 https://containerjournal.com/features/3-cloud-native-database-tools-from-cncf/ Kubernetes Major changes and removals for 1.25 (later in august) https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/08/04/upcoming-changes-in-kubernetes-1-25/ MongoDB MongoDB Community -  https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/ Mongodb Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/mongodb

In this episode, Bhavin interviews Scott Lowe, a Principal Field Engineer at Kong. The discussion dives into what is Cluster API, how it works, and how it helps users deploy Kubernetes clusters at scale using simple YAML files. We also talk about the different components of the Cluster API project and discuss the new features introduced by the community.  Show Notes:  1. Scott Lowe -      https://twitter.com/scott_lowe     Blog - https://blog.scottlowe.org/     Podcast - https://packetpushers.net/series/full-stack-journey/ 2. Cluster API - https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ 3. Kustomize with Cluster API - https://blog.scottlowe.org/2021/11/01/using-kustomize-components-with-cluster-api/ https://blog.scottlowe.org/2021/10/11/kustomize-transformer-configurations-for-cluster-api-v1beta1/ News:  Grafana lab adds K8s monitoring for Grafana Cloud: https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Grafana-Labs-Releases-Kubernetes-Monitoring-for-Grafana-Cloud-153953.aspx Kubeshop acquires majority stake in InfraCloud’s OSS product BotKube: https://www.cxotoday.com/press-release/kubeshop-acquires-majority-stake-in-infraclouds-oss-product-botkube/ Kyverno moves to the CNCF Incubator: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/07/12/kyverno-moves-to-the-cncf-incubator/

This Episode In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview CTO of Speedscale Matt LeRay, a testing service that can collect and replay traffic without scripting, to simulate load and chaos, measure performance for Kubernetes workloads. Learn what Speedscale is, what kind of data is works and how it can be used in Kubernetes for various API driven applications. Weekly News Links Trivy 0.29.0 release - RBAC scanning and Config scans for Helm charts - Bhavin https://blog.aquasec.com/trivy-v0.29.0-rbac-security EKS Anywhere Bare Metal support https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/getting-started-with-eks-anywhere-on-bare-metal/ Redis High Availability architecture: (optional) https://redis.com/blog/high-availability-architecture/ CubeFS - now a CNCF Incubating project https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/07/03/cubefs-accepted-as-a-cncf-incubating-project/ Over 900000 Kubernetes instances found exposed online - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-900-000-kubernetes-instances-found-exposed-online/ https://blog.cyble.com/2022/06/27/exposed-kubernetes-clusters/ Ondat 2.8 release https://www.ondat.io/blog/the-elusive-octopus-has-arrived-ondat-launches-version-2.8 Speedscale Links https://speedscale.com/  https://speedscale.com/free-trial/ https://speedscale.com/kubernetes/

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Rick Spencer, VP of Products at InfluxData, previously the VP of Platforms for InfluxData. The discussion focuses on InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB, and how they help customers looking for a Time-Series database solution. Rick talks about the interesting IoT and Edge computing use cases, and how getting that real-time sensor information can be transformational for customers. In the second half of the discussion, we focus on how InfluxDB cloud runs across three major cloud providers, running on top of Kubernetes itself. Rick focuses on their Kubernetes adoption journey and talks about their architecture today. We also talk about how users can leverage InfluxDB for monitoring their large-scale Kubernetes deployments too!  Show Links: Datastax raises a private equity round of $115M valuring the company at $1.6B to focus more on Astra DB and Astra streaming - https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/15/datastax-proves-its-still-possible-to-raise-nine-figures-at-higher-valuation-in-2022/ Platform9 raises $26M bringing the total money raised across all the rounds to $100M - https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/14/platform9-raises-26m-to-help-manage-distributed-cloud-clusters/ Finout raised $14M Series A funding to help organizations break down the cost of each Kubernetes namespace, each folder in the S3 bucket, each Snowflake Query, etc. -  https://www.geektime.com/finout-wants-to-reduce-your-cloud-costs-with-a-mega-bill-and-14m-in-a-round-funding/ Mercedez Benz runs 900 K8s clusters -  https://www.infoworld.com/article/3664052/why-mercedes-benz-runs-on-900-kubernetes-clusters.html Weave Policy Library for HIPAA compliance - https://www.weave.works/blog/weave-policy-library-introducing-hipaa-policies Kanister Webinar - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinar-kanister-application-level-data-protection-on-kubernetes Cloud-native storage - Kubernetes Podcast - https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/182-cloud-native-storage/ 2021 K8s Annual Report - https://www.cncf.io/reports/kubernetes-annual-report-2021/ Enhancements#3337: KEP-3333 Retroactive default StorageClass assignment

In this episode, Bhavin interviews Brad Ascar, Principal Product Manager at Redis, focusing on all things containers and Kubernetes. The discussion dives into the higher-level architecture of Redis, how to deploy a Redis cluster on Kubernetes using the Redis Operator, and what are some of the benefits and challenges of running Redis on Kubernetes. We also talk about how you can upgrade, scale and manage your Redis clusters on Kubernetes, and how you can architect a Geo-distributed Active-Active Redis cluster for your applications!  Show Notes:  1. Redis Operator 2. Redis Use Cases 3. Redis on Kubernetes News:  1. Mirantis integrates Lens IDE with Docker Desktop 2. Coinbase adopts Kubernetes 3. Dynamic Kubernetes cluster autoscaling at Airbnb

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon Europe had close to 7500 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:  The State of Cloud-Native Development Report - Q3 2021 (came out in May 2022): https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Q3-2021-State-of-Cloud-Native-development_FINAL.pdf Akuity raises $20M Series A to take Argo project next level: https://siliconangle.com/2022/05/16/kubernetes-startup-akuity-raises-20m-take-argo-project-next-level/ Teleport raises $110M series C to $1.1B evaluation: https://goteleport.com/blog/series-c/ Snapt launches Nova - https://aithority.com/it-and-devops/cloud/snapt-announces-the-one-security-package-to-run-kubernetes-in-public-cloud/ Kasten K10 - v5: https://www.storagereview.com/news/kasten-k10-v5-0-offers-enhanced-kubernetes-security-and-more Datadog https://containerjournal.com/news/news-releases/datadog-enhances-monitoring-and-security-for-kubernetes/ Sysdig launches Sysdig Advisor:  https://containerjournal.com/kubecon-cnc-eu-2022/sysdig-introduces-sysdig-advisor-to-drastically-simplify-kubernetes-troubleshooting/ Red Hat open sources StackRox: https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/red-hat-open-sources-stackrox-the-kubernetes-security-platform-it-acquired-last-year Portworx - PDS and BaaS - https://portworx.com/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-portworx-data-services/ https://portworx.com/blog/fast-and-simple-data-protection-with-portworx-backup-as-a-service/ Datacore launches Bolt - based on OpenEBS after Mayadata acquisition - https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/05/18/datacore-bolt-kubernetes/ Kubecost - 1 click Request Sizing to Automatically Optimize Kubernetes Clusters and Eliminate Wasted Spend - https://www.yahoo.com/now/kubecost-launches-1-click-request-060000724.html SUSE open sources NeuVector container security platform - https://containerjournal.com/features/suse-integrates-container-security-platform-with-rancher/ Lacework - https://containerjournal.com/features/lacework-dives-deeper-into-kubernetes-security/ NetApp Astra Data Store - https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/05/25/netapp-per-ardua-ad-as