746: Infrastructure for TS Devs: Kubernetes, WASM and Containers with David Flanagan
Deploy your own tech stack: Wes and Scott are joined by Kubernetes expert David Flanagan to be schooled on how Kubernetes, Docker and even WASM containers work.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 01:55 Should developers know how to run their own servers?
- 04:57 What is “bare metal”?
- 11:49 What the hell is Kubernetes?
- 12:25 Why would somebody need Kubernetes?
- 15:37 Using Kubernetes to spin up different instances on cloud providers.
- etcd
- 16:43 Kubernetes managing traffic spikes.
- 18:46 How much downtime can you handle?
- 22:11 What exactly is a container?
- 24:06 What containers do you prefer?
- Docker
- Containerd
- 25:28 Some additional terminology.
- OCI Open Container Initiative
- 26:43 What about WASM?
- WASM WebAssembly
- 29:31 Building a Docker container.
- 31:11 Why would someone want to use a WebAssembly container?
- 32:12 Are people shipping this technology?
- 33:36 What functions would you put in WASM?
- 36:57 How does someone make a WASM image?
- 39:22 A little more about Spin.
- Fermyon Spin
- 39:56 What type of processors are used in these servers?
- 42:27 What are home servers running on?
- Turing Pi 2
- Daniel Mangum
- Universal Blue
- 46:40 How should someone get started with Kubernetes?
- Kubernetes.io
- Rawkode YouTube
- Kubesimplify
- Learnk8s
- 48:51 Infrastructure as code.
- CDK for Terraform
- GraalVM
- 55:19 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks
- David:
Shameless Plugs
- David:
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