Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields · Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Show overview
Kubernetes Podcast from Google has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 272 episodes. That works out to roughly 180 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 31 min and 46 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 8 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2019, with 50 episodes published.
From the publisher
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 [email protected].
Latest Episodes
View all 272 episodesAgent Substrate, with Tim Hockin and Brandon Royal
Kubernetes 1.37, with Dipesh Rawat
Measuring Sustainability via Project Kepler, with Niki Manoledaki
Navigating AI Guidelines in Kubernetes, with Kat Cosgrove and Natali Vlatko
Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan Grahl
Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada
Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet
GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei
Ep 264Kubernetes 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: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com Links from the interview Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)
Ep 263Kubernetes 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: [email protected] - 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 pools Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026 Links from the interview Kubernetes Software Conformance program kubectl Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API Kubernetes WG AI Conformance Kubernetes SIG Architecture Kubernetes SIG Testing
Ep 262GKE 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: [email protected] 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 Meshery Contributor (CMC) Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility Links from the interview Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way MiniKube Kind Docker Compose Docker Swarm GKE Autopilot Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Google Cloud TPUs Node Auto Provisioning (GKE) Jax (Machine Learning Framework) Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Serverless on Google Cloud Grafana Prometheus Kubectl-ai Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot
Ep 261GKE 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: [email protected] - 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 on X Virtual Networks Kubernetes Networking Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Kubernetes Gateway API Calico Cilium Multi-Service CIDR DRANet
Ep 260Kubernetes 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: [email protected] - 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 Kubernetes Blog Join the Kubernetes Slack Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events SIG Docs Meetings Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository Good First Issues for kubernetes/website Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website
Ep 259Kubernetes 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: [email protected] - 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 donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose Links from the interview Vyom Yadav Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak
Ep 258LLM-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 project. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes 1.34 is expected to release end of August Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose CNCF top 30 project of 2025 Links from the interview LLM-D KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes WG Serving vLLM Disaggregated Prefilling LWS: LeaderWorkerSet
Ep 257Platform 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: [email protected] - 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 interview Backstage DORA Metrics
Ep 256Platform 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: [email protected] - 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 Experts Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1 Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2 KRO on the podcast Kyverno Nomad FluxCD
Ep 255HPC 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: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments Gemini CLI on GitHub Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live! CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let's Build What's Next OpenStack Foundation OpenInfra Foundation Links from the interview Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn CERN Infiniband Kubernetes Jobs HTCondor Slurm Workload Manager Kueue Volcano Kube-batch (archived) Kubefed (archived) Yunikorn (Unicorn) KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2) CNCF End User Awards - CERN Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot) Interlink Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration) XPK: a container-native platform for HPC Gateway API KubeRay
Ep 254Kubernetes & 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: [email protected] - 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 and AWS Serverless MCP server KubeCon China, KubeCon Japan, and KubeCon India CNCF Maintainer Summit and Maintainer Track at KubeCon North America LLM-d project VLLM Kubernetes Inference Gateway Blog: Introducing the Inference Extension for Gateway API Interview Kubo Labs Google Developer Expert (GDE) Program DevOpsDays Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) KCD Rio de Janeiro 2025 KubeCon EU 2025 Schedule SecNumCloud OpenTelemetry Docker Community and Docker Captains Program Elastic Community HashiCorp Community GKE Dataplane V2 Kubernetes Network Policies GKE VPC-native clusters GKE Dashboards Docker's AI/ML Trends Report 2024 eBPF Liz Rice CNCF Landscape - Service Mesh Container Storage Interface (CSI) Agones McDonald's AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next Target AI lightning talk at Google Cloud Next Target AI session at Google Cloud Next Google Cloud Next 2024 Developer Keynote
Ep 253Multi-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: [email protected] - 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 in GKE Kyverno 1.14.0 was released Links from the interview Nick Eberts on LinkedIn Jon Li on LinkedIn MCO Blog MCO Repo Cluster Inventory API ClusterProfile API Gemma 3 vLLM Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Hello World Sample (deploy on Google Cloud using Terraform and Argo CD) Gateway API Inference Extension