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   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…

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   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…

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   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…

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   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:…

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   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…

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   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…

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   E272 · 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…

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   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 &…

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    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…

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