kind stands for Kubernetes in Docker. Originally built for continuous integration (CI) and testing of Kubernetes itself, kind has found many uses, including acting as a cluster for bootstrapping other clusters. Original author Ben Elder from Google Cloud joins Craig and Adam to talk about it.
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Chatter of the week * Adam’s new Seattle office building * Example Quick Cryptic from The Times * Example USA Today crossword * New York Times crossword puzzle case study * The NYT mini crossword + Craig’s record is 13 seconds! * Times for the Times solver blog * A puzzle in a tweet + The answer + Code Golf
News of the week * Introducing Kubernetes Academy Brought To You By VMware + Kubernetes Academy Brought To You By VMware * Knative serverless Kubernetes bypasses FaaS to revive PaaS * Helm 3 Beta + To Helm or not to Helm? by Stepan Stipl * Announcing etcd 3.4 by Gyuho Lee and Jingyi Hu * Blocking old Cert Manager versions from Lets Encrypt * Linux Namespaces by Ifeanyi Ubah * How kubectl exec works by Erkan Erol * Announcing the CNCF Kubernetes Project Journey Report + The report * Adopting Istio for a multi-tenant kubernetes cluster in Production by Vishal Banthia * StackRox 2.5 * Platform9 raises $25m in Series D + The first managed Kubernetes service on VMware? * Dell previews data protection software for Kubernetes * DNS spoofing in Kubernetes clusters by Daniel Sagi * Dynamic Kubernetes informers by Robert Ross * What’s next for Vault and Kubernetes? * Consul 1.6 is now GA * Kubernetes security audit: What GKE and Anthos users need to know + Managed AD now in Beta on Google Cloud * Introducing Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 in Developer Preview; releasing nightly builds + Developer Preview now available on GCP * Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications * Deploying GitOps with Weave Flux and Amazon EKS
Links from the interview * Ben’s GSoC proposal and first Kubernetes project: use iptables for proxying instead of userspace * kind webpage + Documentation * kind on GitHub * Privileged containers * kubernetes CI * Cluster API * IPv6 on kind * End to end testing * Running Kubernetes in a CI pipeline by Loodse * Cluster API logo - it’s turtles all the way down * kubeadm * cluster-api-provider-docker * Other tools: + kinder + kindest * Shoutouts to: + Antonio Ojea from SUSE + James Munnelly from JetStack + SIG Cluster Lifecycle * Ben Elder on Twitter