What does it take to support Kubernetes for other users? Kenneth Massada, a lead for GKE support at Google Cloud, tells Craig and Adam his story.
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Chatter * Adam lives in Seattle, which is on fire * Craig baked some tasty cookies + Using this recipe + But not using Vegemite, British Marmite or New Zealand Marmite, which are three totally separate things. Only one of which is nice. - Hint: it’s the last one
News of the week * 2018 Kubernetes Steering Committee Elections * Binary Authorization on Google Kubernetes Engine * kube-hunter from Aqua Security + Video + Blog * Kubernetes issues and solutions from Alexander Lukyanchenko at Avito * Cilium 1.2 released + Accelerating Envoy with the Linux Kernel * James Lee’s blogs on Kubernetes networking * Amazon EKS supports GPU-Enabled EC2 instances
Links from the interview * etcd is hard: + Configuration flags + OpenAI suggestions on scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 nodes includes a separate events database + Kubernetes docs on configuring and upgrading etcd + Tina and Fred from Google SRE also discussed etcd on Episode 9 + (Or use GKE, where we do it all for you) * Other hard concepts: + apiVersion: is hard + spec: is hard + Liveliness and readiness probes - don’t make them the same! + Joe Beda thinks of YAML as machine code in Episode 12 * What would Ken like to see changed in Kubernetes? + Affinity and anti-affinity rules and topology keys * Kenneth Massada on Twitter + Or summon him with a GCP support case!