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. List ..read more

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.   Are 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  Kubec ..read more

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=sharing ..read more

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!    Show Links  https://community.f5.com https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way https://w ..read more

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 - Platf ..read more

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 an ..read more

In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christoph Hartmann - the CTO and co-founder of Mondoo about all things Kubernetes Security. The discussion starts by talking about Kubernetes Security Posture Management (KSPM) and then dives into Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) and SBOM Attestation. They also talk about the open-source project "cnspec" and how it can help organizations scan their entire infrastructure, including VMs, containers, container registries, code repositories, etc for vulnerabilities.  News: https://www.weave.works/blog/weaveworks-donates-project-kured-to-the-cncf http ..read more

In the first episode of season 3, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Michael Guarino - the CTO of plural.sh about how plural helps users deploy applications on Kubernetes easily. They discuss the challenges associated with deploying applications consistently across different Kubernetes distributions, and talk about how Plural provides a unified solution that auto-generates Kubernetes manifests, HELM charts, and Terraform files and follows GitOps principles to deploy applications across Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.  News:  Kubernetes v1.26: Alpha support for cross-namespace storage da ..read more

In the first episode of season 3, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Michael Guarino - the CTO of plural.sh about how plural helps users deploy applications on Kubernetes easily. They discuss the challenges associated with deploying applications consistently across different Kubernetes distributions, and talk about how Plural provides a unified solution that auto-generates Kubernetes manifests, HELM charts, and Terraform files and follows GitOps principles to deploy applications across Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE.  News:  Kubernetes v1.26: Alpha support for cross-namespace storage da ..read more

In this last episode of Kubernetes Bytes Season 2, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner dive into Service Mesh. You will learn all about the benefits of Service Mesh, how it helps reduce overhead for developers, the different deployment models (sidecar and Ambient Mesh), and the challenges and benefits for each. News: Trilio raises $17M - https://trilio.io/resources/funding-and-executive-update Snyk raises $196.5M at $7.4B valuation - https://snyk.io/news/snyk-closes-196-5-million-series-g-funding-at-7-4-billion-valuation/ Blocks and Files - Kubernetes Storage Tests Update -  https://blocksandfi ..read more