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Kubernetes Podcast from Google

by Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields · English · Tech & Science

A biweekly podcast focused on what's happening in the Kubernetes community hosted by Abdel Sghiouar and Kaslin Fields. We cover Kubernetes, cloud-native applications, and other developments in the ecosystem. Abdel and Kaslin on Twitter at @KubernetesPod or by email at kubernetespodcast@google.com.

New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 41 min
Latest: 3 Sep 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

3 Sep 2026 · 48 min

Agent Substrate, with Tim Hockin and Brandon Royal

Tim Hockin is a long term software engineer with Google Cloud and I would argue one of the fathers of Kubernetes. Brandon Royal is a product manager on GKE and has been behind the launch of multiple OSS projects like the Ray Operator for k8s, Agent Sandbox and our topic for today - Agent Substrate. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.37: Garhwal Kubernetes Podcast: Kubernetes 1.37 with Dipesh Rawat Kubernetes…

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E271 · 26 Aug 2026 · 31 min

Kubernetes 1.37, with Dipesh Rawat

Dipesh Rawat is a Software Developer at IBM, CNCF Ambassador, CNCF Kubestronaut and SIG Docs Tech Lead. A contributor across multiple Kubernetes release cycles, he serves as the Release Lead for Kubernetes v1.37. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week CNCF Announces Kubeflow's Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for…
E270 · 12 Aug 2026 · 49 min

Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki

Niki Manoledaki is a Staff Platform Engineer at Grafana Labs, A CNCF Ambassador and Green Software Foundation Champion, and a core maintainer of Project Kepler. We explore the recent rewrite of Project Kepler and the challenges of measuring sustainability in the era of AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF Incubating Project KEP-5972 Dynamic Pod Mutation: Optimistic Execution &…
E269 · 22 Jul 2026 · 51 min

Navigating AI Guidelines in Kubernetes, with Kat Cosgrove and Natali Vlatko

In this episode, Kat Cosgrove (SIG Docs Technical Lead, SIG Release Subproject Lead, and Steering Committee member) and Natali Vlatko (SIG Docs Co-Chair, Steering Committee member for the TODO Group, and Open Source Architect at Cisco) join hosts Kaslin Fields and Abdel Sghiouar to discuss the newly published Kubernetes AI usage policy. We dive into the legal and administrative reasoning behind the policy—including why AI tools cannot legally sign the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) or co-author PRs—and explore how maintainers manage the influx of "AI slop" PRs, spam comments, and…
E268 · 12 Jun 2026 · 39 min

Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl

In this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl . Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked about Kubernetes, Sandboxes and Chocolate. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week OpenTelemetry is a CNCF Graduated Project CNCF TAG Elections KubeCon India Kubernetes Community Days global events Links from the interview Lovable Cilium Etcd Cloudflare Sandbox…
E270 · 27 May 2026 · 27 min

Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada

Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Etcd version 3.7.0 is out Merge Forward Community Truepositive Links from the interview Kubernetes 1.35…
E266 · 13 May 2026 · 41 min

Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of…
E265 · 7 May 2026 · 17 min

GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei

Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon . It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE) Agones is a…
E264 · 22 Dec 2025 · 29 min

Kubernetes 1.35: Timbernetes, with Drew Hagen

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. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail:…
E263 · 17 Dec 2025 · 18 min

Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo

Janet Kuo , Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com Intro KubeCon North America 2025 Kubernetes AI Conformance program News of the Week 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…
E262 · 29 Oct 2025 · 42 min

GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com X: @kubernetespod bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference vllm-project/semantic-router on github Announcing the Certified…
E261 · 1 Oct 2025 · 37 min

GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters KCD H1 2026 Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project Links from the interview Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn Antonio Ojea…
E260 · 24 Sep 2025 · 32 min

Kubernetes SIG Docs, With Shannon Kularathna

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Reddit Post KubeCon NA KubeCon NA Colo events Jeager v2 Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE Links from the interview Shannon Kularathna Kubernetes SIG Docs Kubernetes Documentation Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal Kubernetes Code of Conduct SIG Contributor Experience…
E259 · 27 Aug 2025 · 31 min

Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav

Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week GKE 10 years Hackathon Golden Kubestronauts 100 members Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation Solo.io…
E258 · 20 Aug 2025 · 53 min

LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw

Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM…
E257 · 6 Aug 2025 · 34 min

Platform Engineering, with Ben Good

This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast . Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.34 Sneak Peak Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025) Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster CNCF Cloud Native Glossary Links from the…
E256 · 25 Jul 2025 · 21 min

Platform Engineering, GitOps and AI with Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu . Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Docker Desktop version 4.43 release Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026 Links from the interview Google Developer…
E255 · 9 Jul 2025 · 43 min

HPC Workload Scheduling, with Ricardo Rocha

Ricardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG). Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail:…
E254 · 24 Jun 2025 · 31 min

Kubernetes & Cloud Native Trends, with Alain Regnier and Camila Martins

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. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News Google Cloud Next KubeCon Europe Amazon Q for the Command Line Blog - Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS…
E253 · 28 May 2025 · 22 min

Multi-Cluster Orchestrator, with Nick Eberts and Jon Li

Guests are Nick Eberts and Jon Li. Nick is a Product Manager at Google working on Fleets and Multi-Cluster and Jon is a Software Engineer at Google working on AI Inference on Kubernetes. We discussed the newly announced Multi Cluster Orchestrator (MCO) and the challenges of running multiple clusters. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Etcd has released version 3.6.0 Kubernetes 1.33 is now available in the Rapid channel…
E252 · 15 May 2025 · 52 min

KubeCon EU 2025

In this episode, we're bringing you a curated selection of conversations from the KubeCon EU 2025 showfloor. We'll be diving into the rise of platform engineering, exploring some cutting-edge technologies, getting updates on core Kubernetes components, and hearing some truly unique user stories, like using Kubernetes on a dairy farm! Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week CNCF Blog - Announcing the Automated Governance…
E251 · 24 Apr 2025 · 44 min

Kubernetes v1.33 Octarine, with Nina Polshakova

Nina Polshakova is a software engineer at Solo.io, where she's worked on Istio and API Gateway projects. She's been part of the Kubernetes release team since v1.27 and is currently serving as the Release Lead for v1.33. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week 229 new things Google announced at Next 25 MCO: Multi-Cluster Orchestrator Golden Kubestronaut Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate The kube-scheduler-simulator…
E250 · 1 Apr 2025 · 44 min

Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO), with Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery

Today we welcome Jesse Butler and Nic Slattery to talk about the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator, or KRO. Jesse works as a principal product manager at AWS and Nic is a Product Manager at Google. The Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator is a new cloud agnostic tool meant to simplify Kubernetes resources for devs and platform admins. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes JobSets: An open-source API for managing…
E249 · 25 Mar 2025 · 42 min

Kubernetes at LinkedIn, with Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani

Ahmet Alp Balkan and Ronak Nathani are software engineers at LinkedIn compute infrastructure team running the Kubernetes platform for LinkedIn and they joined us today to talk about how they run Kubernetes at scale and what they learned along the way. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week CubeFS was moved to the CNCF Graduated Maturity Level. CNCF Maturity Levels Canonical announced 12 year Kubernetes Long Term Support.…
E248 · 11 Mar 2025 · 45 min

Kubernetes Ingress & Gateway API Updates, with Lior Lieberman

Lior Lieberman is a software engineer lead at Google Cloud focusing on GCE, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh. He is a leading contributor to Gateway API and the maintainer of Ingress2gateway. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week NFTables mode for kube-proxy | Kubernetes Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF | CNCF New Phippy Book Guidelines:…
E247 · 13 Feb 2025 · 18 min

Kubernetes History Inspector, with Kakeru Ishii

Kakeru is the initiator of the Kubernetes History Inspector or KHI. An open source tool that allows you to visualise Kubernetes Logs and troubleshoot issues. We discussed what the tool does, how it's built and what was the motivation behind Open sourcing it. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week The Schedule for the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2025 Maintainers Summit is live The CNCF 2024 review of the top 30 projects The…
E246 · 29 Jan 2025 · 53 min

Linkerd, with William Morgan

William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant , the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management KubeCon EU 2025 schedule CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025) CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2,…
E245 · 15 Jan 2025 · 43 min

Device Management in Kubernetes, with John Belamaric

John Belamaric is a senior staff software engineer at Google who has been involved in Kubernetes since 2016, and is currently a co-chair of both SIG Architecture and WG Device Management. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week KubeCon Japan CFP KubeCon India CFP Links from the interview Working Group Device Management on GitHub (meeting info here) CoreDNS Dynamic Resource Allocation in Kubernetes Control Topology Management…
E244 · 16 Dec 2024 · 35 min

Kubernetes Podcast 2024 Recap

This episode is a recap of 2024. Co-hosts Abdel and Kaslin and guest host Mofi got together to reflect on how 2024 has been in the Cloud Native and Kubernetes space. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod Links from the interview 2024 Wrapped: Top 5 episodes 10 years k8s anniversary episodes 226 , 227 , 228 , 229 CNCF Kubernetes 10 years documentary Google Kubernetes 10 years documentary Gateway API with Rob Scrott episode LLM Gateway Emily Fox on the podcast Kubernetes…
E243 · 12 Dec 2024 · 44 min

Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope, with Frederico Muñoz

Release Lead Frederico Muñoz walks us through the 1.32 release: new feature highlights, deprecations and removals, and the release theme: Penelope. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Gateway API v1.2: WebSockets, Timeouts, Retries, and More Streamline Kubernetes cluster management with new Amazon EKS Auto Mode Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.32: Penelope (Release Blog) SIG ContribEx Comms Kubernetes…

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Language: English
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New episodes: Every two weeks
Typical length: 41 min
Latest episode: 3 Sep 2026
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