RCN #17 - Elbowing into the Cloud

In the final episode of Radio Cloud Native, Eric takes a look at Kubernetes 1.29, a tool for creating OCI images of eBPF programs, new ways to live in a simulation (of Kubernetes), and more. 

A full list of topics covered in this episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.29, codenamed: Mandala
  • New defaults for cloud provider integrations
  • Storage refinements
  • Improvements for Kubernetes on Windows
• Cisco to acquire Isovalent
• Solo.io's BumbleBee
• SimKube for simulated Kubernetes clusters
• KubeCon NA recap
•  A final farewell & last Whack-a-Doodle

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Hosts Eric Gregory breaks through the jargon to help you make sense of it all.

In this episode, Eric walks through the highlights of Kubernetes 1.28, then breaks down the latest kerfuffles in the world of the enterprise open source, a major security issue in npm, and more.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.28 Release
• Cloud trends for the summer
• Open source tumult
• Developer trends for the remainder of 2023
• ChatGPT & StackOverflow study
• The bug at the heart of npm
• Remembering Bram Moolenar

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

Read the attached blog post for this episode here: https://www.mirantis.com/blog/what-s-new-in-kubernetes-1-28-sidecar-containers-and-fewer-disruptions 

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Host Eric Gregory breaks through the jargon to help you make sense of it all.

In this episode, Eric discusses the new open source control plane manager k0smotron, Kubernetes’ new sidecar container feature, changes around Red Hat Enterprise Linux and how those have echoed around the industry, a new wrinkle in Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware, and much more. 

Access the resources Eric presented in this episode below:

• k0smotron GitHub page: https://github.com/k0sproject/k0smotron
• KEP-753 - Sidecar containers: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-node/753-sidecar-containers
• CMA document on Broadcom/VMware: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64ac174ab504f7000ccdb88e/Issues_Statement_Response.pdf

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• k0smotron
• Kubernetes Sidecar feature update
• Congrats to Istio
• Red Hat RHEL & SUSE
• New wrinkles in the Broadcom/VMware saga

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the latest news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and John Jainschigg break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week Eric does a deep dive into Prime Video’s microservice-to-monolith story - or maybe it’s a microservice refactoring? Then he explores some cool new features in k0s 1.27, including wasm support and a neat bit of security hardening, as well as the latest releases for JavaScript runtimes Bun and Deno, and the role of open source large language models in the industry’s ongoing AI tempest.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Microservices to monoliths? A Prime Video story
• k0s 1.27 - from the Teams at Mirantis!
• JSwatch - a look at the JavaScript world
• Update on PyPi & the world of security
• A closing word on Large Language Models - small & open?

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download.

You can also watch the on demand recordings of each episode on our YouTube channel @MirantisUS or catch the audio only version wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

KubeCon Europe is in full swing - so we'll be circling back to the most interesting developments from the conference next week. This week week however, Eric & special guest host John Jainschigg tackle a whirlwind of Kubernetes news stories, including some new release features that are fresh off the press, as well as a whole lot more!

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Kubernetes 1.27
• News from KubeCon in Amsterdam
  • CNCF Security Audit
  • Trivy adds CIS Kubernetes benchmark scanning
  • Java Operator SDK
  • Keycloak joins the CNCF
• A "vibe-shift" in the world of AI
• WebAssembly news update
• Hacker news - a project reccomendation from Eric

Check out John's Stochastic Parrots paper recommendation: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week Eric is once more joined by everybody's favorite guest host: John Jainschigg. They dive into the recent Swarm-only mode vulnerability (identified by the teams at Mirantis), an Azure exploit that gave security researchers control of Bing, the resolution to the Docker "Free Teams" saga, emerging use cases for LLMs, and - as always - a whole lot more!

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Swarm overlay network security issue
• Fairwinds Kubernetes Benchmark Report 2023
• BingBang - Azure vulnerabilities give researchers control of Bing
• OpenAI's letter & Yudkowsky's rejoinder
• Threat analysis via ChatGPT
• Updates on Docker's "Free Teams"
• Twitter posts "the algorithm"
• Open source Curl project sponsored by Bloomberg
• Alberta Grad student deploys serverless Kubernetes

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week, Eric is joined once again by co-host Nick Chase - with a brief segment with everyone's favorite guest host John Jainschigg - to discuss what the heck is happening with Docker's 'Free Teams' as well as the latest CNCF news, GPT-4, new Kubernetes & Cilium releases, and as always a whole lot more.

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• The end of Docker 'Free Teams'
• CNCF outlines cloud vs. edge-native App principles
• Kepler to CNCF
• National (US) Cybersecurity Strategy
• To cloud or not to cloud - that is the question
• Remote software development jobs pay more than local ones
• GPT-4
• Microsoft 365 CoPilot
• Notable release notes
  • Kubernetes 1.27
  • Cilium 1.13

If you want to listen to more episodes of Radio Cloud Native, please visit https://www.mirantis.com/radiocloudnative/ to download, or find them wherever you prefer to consume your podcasts.

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

We are back with two hosts - everyone's favorite guest host John Jainschigg joins Eric Gregory for this week's installment. On today's episode, we'll be diving into the latest from the Moby project, the new Kubernetes Without Kubelet tool (KWOK), the new EU Cybersecurity Act & its implications for EMEA, as well as a look at the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) late last week. That and much more!

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Moby 23.0 release
• A look at the "Top 8" managed Kubernetes providers
• Kubernetes Without Kubelet Tool (KOWK)
• Raising money to save money
• Beware the Ides of March - SVB Collapse
• EU Cyber Resiliency Act

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week - well, we had some technical difficulties. As you'll hear Eric mention in the beginning of this week's episode, our live stream & recording tool petered out on us so this is a re-recording with all the pertinent news. Nick WAS back this week during the live stream, but Eric is riding solo for this Band-aid episode. 

Eric takes a look at the latest in Kubernetes news, forthcoming update to the NIST's cybersecurity guidance, Section 230, a very wild couple of weeks for AI-based language models, and a whole lot more!

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Goodbye, k8s.gcr.io 
• Chick-fil-a talks more about its cluster-in-every-store K8s strategy
• New Malware called "Beep"
• Reddit breach
• Canonical's Valentine gift is realtime Linux
• DHH update on 37signals cloud repatriation
• Section 230
• Why do I have to be Bing Search?
• "Scary" AI

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!

Get the week's news on Kubernetes, the cloud native landscape, and the wider world of tech. Co-hosts Eric Gregory and Nick Chase break through the jargon and help you make sense of it all.

This week, Eric has a co-host once again - and its everyone's favorite guest host John Jainschigg! The dynamic duo dive into recent ransomware attacks targeting ESXi servers, the current state of DevSecOps across the industry, new AI search options from both Microsoft & Google, and of course, a whole lot more!

If you interested in learning more about DevSecOps, we invite you to check out Eric's recent blog on the topic here: https://www.mirantis.com/blog/the-state-of-cloud-native-securityand-devsecops

A full list of topics for this week's episode include:

• Mirantis acquires Shipa
• Azure's response to surging cloud costs
• VMware ESXi attacks
• Go 1.20
• Recent security reports
• W3C re-launches as public-interest non-profit
• The AI arms race
• Wasm Labs adds Python support

As mentioned by Eric, this (RCN #49) will be the final episode of Radio Cloud Native (in it's current format).

Please keep the podcast in your feed and keep an eye out for fresh content. Sometime early in this new year, the team at Mirantis is planning to revamp Radio Cloud Native (possibly under a new name, but accessible from this same RSS feed).

Thank you to all of our listeners that kept Radio Cloud Native going over the past two-or-so years. And a special thanks as well as good luck to long-time host Eric Gregory as he pursues future endeavors outside of Mirantis. Stay tuned for more podcasts from Mirantis in 2024!