Kubernetes Bytes

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin go back to school and talk about Backup and Restore 101 when it comes to Kubernetes and containerized applications. We discuss why Backup is important, why you need a new approach for Kubernetes, and how do you plan for things like Kubernetes operators and custom resources. We also talk about how backup tools can help you protect from ransomware attacks and look at managed backup solutions to help alleviate administrative tasks when it comes to building and maintaining a data protection solution for Kubernetes!  Show Links:  Kubernetes v1.24 is GA - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/03/kubernetes-1-24-release-announcement/ Storage Capacity API - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/06/storage-capacity-ga/ https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/issues/4517 Volume Expansion support - https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/05/volume-expansion-ga/ Cloud-Native PG - http://cloudnative-pg.io/ Quick primer for Kubecon - https://blog.alexellis.io/when-in-spain-a-quick-primer-for-kubecon/

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Andrew Sillifant, a solution architect at Pure Storage working on all things databases and solutions. The discussion starts by talking about Andrew's early days with the LAMP stack, and how he sees the community evolve around containers and Kubernetes. We dive into the MySQL Operator and how it helps Kubernetes operators or developers deploy MySQL InnoDB clusters using simple YAML files. We talk about the benefits and challenges associated with running MySQL on Kubernetes and talk about the different ways users can protect their MySQL databases. Show links: Andrew Sillifant - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sillifant/ Oracle MySQL Operator - https://github.com/mysql/mysql-operator Percona MySQL Operator - https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-pxc/index.html Bitpoke MySQL Operator - https://www.bitpoke.io/docs/mysql-operator/# Pokemon Go - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/bringing-pokemon-go-to-life-on-google-cloud ARMO raised $30M to build Kubescape - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/armo-raises-30m-for-the-first-open-source-kubernetes-security-platform-301533986.html Platform9 named a leader in Managed Kubernetes solution platform radar from GigaOM - https://research.gigaom.com/reprint/gigaom-radar-for-evaluating-managed-kubernetes-solutions-platform-993544/ NetApp Astra adds support for private AKS clusters and VMware Tanzu - https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/astra-blg-astra-enhances-azure-integration-application-handling-hybrid-cloud-and-adds-vmware-tanzu-support?linkId=100000122358216&spr=100003061438458 Low-Ops Kubernetes storage with MicroK8s and OpenEBS - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinar-low-ops-kubernetes-storage-with-microk8s-and-openebs/ Why and how should you reboot Kubernetes nodes - https://elastisys.com/why-and-how-should-you-reboot-kubernetes-nodes/

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Patrick McFadin, VP of Developer Relations at Datastax, who is a co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Managing Cloud-Native Data on Kubernetes” and a contributor to the Apache Cassandra project. The discussion dives into how K8ssandra helps users deploy Cassandra on Kubernetes clusters, and how customers are using Cassandra as the NoSQL, Distributed DB backend for their applications. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for running Cassandra on Kubernetes, and what users can look forward to in the near future. Show links: Patrick McFadin - LinkedIn - Twitter K8ssandra.io - https://k8ssandra.io Introduction to Cassandra - Crash Course - Youtube series - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2g2h-wyI4SqCdxdiyi8enEyWvACcUa9R AWS Marketplace - https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-iy7gagaxm2foa Cassandra Discord community - https://discord.com/invite/qP5tAt6Uwt Data On Kubernetes - https://www.meetup.com/Data-on-Kubernetes-community/events/ Managing Cloud-Native Data on Kubernetes - https://portworx.com/resource/ebook-managing-cloud-native-data-on-kubernetes/ Cloud-Native News: Docker raises Series-C funding Garden.io raises Series A - $16M funding to combat waste in cloud development  Are you Ready for K8s 1.24 NetApp acquires InstaClustr Spring4Shell - Zero Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Portworx Enterprise 2.10 Etcd v3.5.[0-2] is not recommended for production Announcing Postgres container apps: Easy deploy Postgres apps

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk to the Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ Matt Lenhard to dive into eBPF and what role it plays in the Kubernetes observability ecosystem. Learn about what eBPF is, what use cases it is used for and how you can get started learning more. Show News links https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/introducing-red-hat-openshift-4.10  https://thenewstack.io/nsa-on-how-to-harden-kubernetes/  https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/cr8escape-new-vulnerability-discovered-in-cri-o-container-engine-cve-2022-0811/  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220329005227/en/Ondat-Teams-with-SUSE-to-Protect-Customers%E2%80%99-Sensitive-Data-with-Enhanced-Kubernetes-Security  https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/colocated-events/#attendees  https://komodor.com/learn/kubernetes-pvc-guide-basic-tutorial-and-troubleshooting-tips/  https://www.spectrocloud.com/news/spectro-cloud-closes-40m-series-b-round/  eBPF Resource Links https://github.com/Morpheus-compiler/Morpheus#ebpf-plugin https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloud-native-ebpf-day-europe/ https://github.com/iovisor/kubectl-trace https://github.com/iovisor/bcc

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Gabriele Bartolini, a PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes enthusiast, who is VP of Cloud-Native at EDB. He is a co-founder of PostgreSQL Europe, a founding member of Barman. The discussion dives into how Postgres has evolved over the past 20 years, and how people can now run Postgres on Kubernetes. We talk about the challenges, benefits, and best practices for running Postgres on Kubernetes, and what users can look forward to in the near future. Show links: Gabriele Bartolini - https://twitter.com/_GBartolini_ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbartolini/ Planet PostgreSQL - https://planet.postgresql.org/ Data on Kubernetes - https://www.youtube.com/c/DoKcommunity/search?query=PostgreSQL vSphere CSI driver v2.5 supports CSI snapshots for block volumes - https://cormachogan.com/2022/03/03/announcing-vsphere-csi-driver-v2-5-support-for-csi-snapshots/ DataStax Extends Operator Reach for Databases - https://containerjournal.com/features/datastax-extends-operator-reach-for-databases/  Dirty Pipe CVE - https://blog.aquasec.com/cve-2022-0847-dirty-pipe-linux-vulnerability KubeCon EU Schedule - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/program/schedule/  Secrets store CSI driver - https://community.cncf.io/events/details/cncf-cncf-online-programs-presents-cncf-on-demand-webinarsecrets-store-csi-driver-bringing-external-secrets-in-house What is a Kubernetes controller (35s video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W-NeSg0TBY 

In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes hosts Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner discuss Kubernetes Operators and how they use persistent storage. Operators are software control loops that extend Kubernetes to automate and provide ease of use for application such as databases. Learn about some database operators and how they utilize storage. Check out our Pod Page! https://www.podpage.com/kubernetes-bytes/  Show links https://blog.kubecost.com/blog/series-a-funding-announcement/  https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CNCF-AR_FINAL-edits-15.2.21.pdf  https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/24/kubernetes-development-platform-okteto-raises-15m-series-a/  https://signadot.com/blog/announcing-public-beta/  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220224005128/en/Zenoss-Launches-Advanced-Monitoring-Capabilities-for-Kubernetes  https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220223005265/en/TrilioVault-for-Kubernetes-Now-Available-in-AWS-Marketplace SODACODE - Data and Storage Hackathon - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sodacode/ https://www.sodafoundation.io/home-2/ https://www.robin.io/featured-press/rakuten-symphony-agrees-to-acquire-leading-us-based-cloud-technology-company-robin-io-to-deliver-highly-integrated-telco-cloud-for-mobile/  https://operatorhub.io/ https://operatorframework.io/operator-capabilities/ https://github.com/cetic/helm-postgresql https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/operator/ 

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin interview Vineeth Pothulapati, a product manager at Timescale, and talk about Kubernetes Observability. The discussion dives into what are the three pillars for Observability and how users can leverage different CNCF and Open-source tools like Prometheus, Promscale, and tobs - The Observability Stack for Kubernetes to get started with Observability.  Show links: Vineeth Pothulapati: https://twitter.com/VineethReddy02 https://opentelemetry.io/ Promscale - https://github.com/timescale/promscale Kube-Prometheus stack - https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack tobs - https://github.com/timescale/tobs Timescale DB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFudksxlZjk PX-Backup As A Service - Early Access Program NetApp Astra Enhancements  TechTarget storage magazine and search storage announce storage products of the year 2021 award winners

Xing Yang, Tech Lead at VMware and co-chair of multiple Kubernetes Storage SIGs, shares insights on cloud-native data protection. He discusses how SIGs and WGs collaborate and how newcomers can get involved. The conversation highlights key storage features launched in Kubernetes 1.23 and exciting plans for 1.24. They dive into the impact of recent tech acquisitions like Weaveworks’ purchase of Magalix and Diamanti’s acquisition of Groundwork, showcasing evolving security and monitoring in the Kubernetes landscape.

In todays episode of KubernetesBytes, hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah discuss the basic of running distributed databases like Apache Cassandra and Kafka along with Mongo, CockroachDB and others on Kubernetes. There are various capabilities of Kubernetes that were designed for these types of data services and this podcast should help you get a basic understanding of the landscape as well as WHY you may want to run them on Kubernetes. Show Links: https://thenewstack.io/new-tools-for-optimizing-data-resilience-in-kubernetes/ https://awesome-kubernetes.readthedocs.io/ / https://nubenetes.com/ https://www.containiq.com/post/should-you-run-a-database-on-kubernetes Log4j recap - https://blog.aquasec.com/log4j-vulnerabilities-overview IPv6 support for EKS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-adds-ipv6-networking/ https://thenewstack.io/testkube-a-new-approach-to-cloud-native-testing/ GigaOM DP report 2 https://gigaom.com/report/gigaom-radar-for-kubernetes-data-protection-2/ https://portworx.com/blog/kubernetes-failover-mongodb/ https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/ https://www.purestorage.com/docs.html?item=/type/pdf/subtype/doc/path/content/dam/pdf/en/white-papers/wp-kafka-on-kubernetes-with-portworx.pdf https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra-oss/3.0/cassandra/dml/dmlAboutDataConsistency.html https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ba-multi-data-center-cassandra-cluster-kubernetes-platform/ https://thenewstack.io/the-perfect-pair-kubernetes-and-distributed-sql/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/

Kenny Coleman, a Technical Product Manager at VMware and host of the Bourbon Pursuit podcast, shares his insights on Kubernetes and the Tanzu ecosystem. He discusses the advancements in Kubernetes storage, emphasizing the importance of reliable data solutions. Listeners learn about the integration of Docker and Kubernetes into the EMC storage environment and the complexities of the Tanzu portfolio. Kenny also highlights the significance of persistent storage and tools for effective data management, making Kubernetes accessible for all.