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   E272 · 3 Sep 2026 · 48 min

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   E270 · 12 Aug 2026 · 49 min

   Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki

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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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   E268 · 12 Jun 2026 · 39 min

   Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl

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   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…

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   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…

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   E265 · 7 May 2026 · 17 min

   GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei

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   E264 · 22 Dec 2025 · 29 min

   Kubernetes 1.35: Timbernetes, with Drew Hagen

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   E263 · 17 Dec 2025 · 18 min

   Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo

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    E262 · 29 Oct 2025 · 42 min

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