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Kubernetes Bytes

by Ryan Wallner & Bhavin Shah

Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.

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  1. What if Kubernetes Could Resume Instead of Restart? | Checkpoint / Restore Explained

    Kubernetes usually handles failures and rescheduling by restarting workloads. But what if Kubernetes could save the exact running state of a workload, move it somewhere else, and resume from where it stopped? In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin sits down with Radostin Stoyanov, maintainer...

  2. Your AI Agent Has Too Much Access | Fixing Agent Identity

    AI agents can do far more than answer questions — they can call tools, access data, execute actions, and act on behalf of users. But once agents start taking actions, an important question emerges: who is the agent actually acting as, and what should it be allowed to do? In this episode of...

  3. Your CI Tool is NOT a CD Tool!

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Pushkar, Staff Software Engineer at Snap Inc. The discussion starts by talking about how platform teams support developers by building internal developer platforms, what are the capabilities developers expect in an IDP. They then…

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  4. Optimizing AI spend with Cast AI

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Phil Andrews, Global Field CTO at Cast AI about all things AI. The discussion starts by talking about why you don't need an Opus class or Fable/Mythos class model for each task, and how Kimchi from Cast AI can help manage the…

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  5. Securing Kubernetes for the Mythos Era

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera. The discussion starts by talking about why Alex and team decided to start Edera, where in the stack does it fit in, and how can it work with existing Kubernetes clusters. They also talk about…

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  6. More Code, More Problems: Software Delivery in the Agentic Era

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI about all things Software Delivery. The discussion starts by talking about the evolution of Software Delivery over the last decade, but then dives into how Vibe coding impacts CI pipelines. Rob also shares...

  7. Building Grafana Labs and the Future of Observability with Anthony Woods

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Anthony Woods about all things Grafana Labs, Observability, Telemetry, and how AI impacts both of these ecosystems. The discussion starts off by talking about the early days of Grafana Labs, what is Adaptive Telemetry, and how AI...

  8. Kubernetes for VMware Admins: Understanding KubeVirt

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Janakiram MSV about all things KubeVirt. The discussion starts off by talking about the need for KubeVirt and then dives into the details of the KubeVirt architecture, and what you need to do when deploying virtual machines…

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  9. Secure your Kubernetes applications with Chainguard

    Join Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah for season 6 of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. In this episode Bhavin talks to Adrian Mouat, Dev Rel at Chainguard about all things Kubernetes Security. They discuss CVEs, the different vulnerability databases, and how platform engineers can use Chainguard images…

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  10. Diving Into Kubernetes: The Developer's First Steps with New Relic

    Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner as they speak with Jemiah Sius, Senior Director of Developer Relations at New Relic to talk about how to get started with learning about Kubernetes. They hosts and Jemiah explore how this has changed within the last 10 years as well as explore what are some good...

  11. Database as a service with Percona Everest

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Edith (Edi) Puclla, Technology Evangelist at Percona to talk about Percona Everest. The conversation focuses on Percona's investment in the Open-source ecosystem, and how they keep innovating with Percona Monitoring…

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  12. KubeCon NA 2024 News Recap

    Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/...

  13. Increasing AI adoption using Kubernetes

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Tobi Knaup, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix about all things Kubernetes and AI. The discussion focuses on how Kubernetes has evolved since the early days, and why it's architecture is a perfect fit for...

  14. Monolith to Microservices using Kubernetes at Guidewire

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Diego Devalle and Anoop Gopalakrishnan from Guidewire to talk about how they went through an application modernization journey and adopted Kubernetes and cloud over the last 5 years. Diego and Anoop share their...

  15. Inference in Action: Scaling Al Smarter with Inferless

    In this episode, we sit down with Nilesh Agarwal, co-founder of Inferless, a platform designed to streamline serverless GPU inference. We’ll cover the evolving landscape of model deployment, explore open-source tools like KServe and Knative, and discuss how Inferless solves common bottlenecks…

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  16. Container security with Wiz

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Ofir Cohen, CTO of Container Security at Wiz. The discussion focuses on the challenges with the cloud native security ecosystem, how organizations can improve their security posture, how developers can do less with more, and...

  17. Dagger.io Deep Dive with Co-Founder Sam Alba

    In this episode, we dive into the challenges of modern CI systems and why they often hinder productivity. We explore Dagger, a programmable CI/CD pipeline engine, with insights from Sam, a former Docker engineer. Learn how Dagger addresses CI complexity, speeds up workflows, and enhances...

  18. Running Ray on Kubernetes with KubeRay

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Kai-Hsun Chen, Software Engineer at Anyscale and maintainer of the KubeRay project. The discussion focuses on how the open source Ray project can help organizations use a single tool for data prep, model training, fine tuning...

  19. Building scalable data platforms using Data on EKS

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Alex Lines and Vara Bonthu from AWS to talk about the Data on EKS project. The discussion dives into why AWS decided to build the Data on EKS project and provide patterns for EKS customers to use to deploy data platforms,...

  20. Deploy and fine-tune LLM models on Kubernetes using KAITO

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Sachi Desai, Product Manager and Paul Yu, Sr. Cloud Advocate at Microsoft to talk about the open source KAITO project. KAITO is the Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator that enables AKS users to deploy open source LLM models on...

  21. The business case for cloud-native and Kubernetes

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Danielle Cook - VP of Marketing, appCD and Co-chair, CNCF Cartografos Working Group, CNCF. The discussion dives into how technical individual contributors can and should think about a business case for cloud native adoption....

  22. Building the AI Hyperscaler with Kubernetes

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Brandon Jacobs, an Infrastructure architect at Coreweave. They discuss how Coreweave has adopted Kubernetes to build the AI hyperscaler. The discussion dives into details around how Coreweave handles Day 0 and Day 2 operations...

  23. Shifting Minds: Exploring OpenShift's AI Landscape

    Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah talk to Andy Grimes about the OpenShift AI Landscape. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Nethopper - Learn more about KAOPS: @nethopper.io - For a supported-demo: [email protected] - Try the free version of KAOPS now!...

  24. Training Machine Learning (ML) models on Kubernetes

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Bernie Wu, VP Strategic Partnerships and AI/CXL/Kubernetes Initiatives at Memverge. They discuss about how Kubernetes is the most popular platform to run AI model training and model inferencing jobs. The discussion dives into...

  25. The evolution of service mesh technologies

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christian Posta - VP and Global Field CTO at Solo.io about all things Service Mesh. They discuss how things have evolved from the early Linkerd days to sidecar less istio service mesh implementations. They also talk about…

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  26. What are Vector Databases

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Torsten Steinbach - VP, Chief Architect for Analytics & AI at EDB about all things Vector Databases, Postgres, and why Data is important for building AI platforms. The discussion dives into how vector databases are different...

  27. KubeCon EU Paris News Recap

    Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcments and news from KubeCon Paris 2024. Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in New York City on May 22nd, use the promo code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount on your registration fees! Nethopper Learn more about KAOPS: @nethopper.io For a...

  28. Open Policy Agent (OPA) 101

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Charlie Egan, Sr. Developer Advocate at Styra about all things Open Policy Agent or OPA. This episode is meant to be a 101 level episode, where we will learn what OPA is and how it can help improve the security posture for...

  29. Ops Ops Hooray! Navigating IDPs from an Ops perspective

    Join hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah of Kubernetes Bytes as they explore the complexities of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Chris Munford, CEO, and Dan Donahue, Solution Architect of Nethopper. In this episode, the team discusses the challenges of constructing IDPs, achieving the...

  30. Generative AI on Kubernetes

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Janakiram MSV - an advisor, analyst and architect to talk about how users can run Generative AI models on Kubernetes. The discussion revolves around Jani's home lab and his experimentation with different LLM models and...

  31. IDPs Unveiled: Accelerating Deployment on Kubernetes

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Hosts Bhavin and Ryan dive into what makes up a Internal Development Platform (IDP). Bhavin and Ryan help to define what an IDP is, how it relates to the overarching topic of platform engineering as well as the pros and cons of implementing an IDP. 00:03:01 -...

  32. Running Kubernetes at the Edge using K3s

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Jason Dobies - Director of Edge Engineering at SUSE to talk about all things K3s. They discuss why Kubernetes is best suited for Edge deployments, and why K3s was built and how it helps users architect their edge solutions.…

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  33. Running multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using vCluster

    In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Lukas Gentele, Co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs to talk about the vCluster project. They discuss how vCluster helps organizations run multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, where each tenant gets access to a CNCF-conformant…

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  34. Platform Engineering at NYTimes

    In the first episode of Season 4 for the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Ahmed Bebars, Staff Software Engineer at NYTimes to talk about how the times uses Kubernetes and Platform Engineering to accelerate their developer productivity and improve developer experience. They talk…

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  35. Byte-sized: Exploring the Basics of AI in Plain English

    Learn along side Bhavin and Ryan as they dig into some of basics of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. They explore what terms mean, what the basic differences are and take an introductory look at how companies approaches to building and using models for various use…

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  36. Kubecon North America 2023: Highlights, Themes and Key Takeaways

    In this episode, Ryan and Bhavin talk about Kubecon + Cloud Native Con North America 2023 in Chicago, and discuss all the vendor announcements from the past couple of weeks. Kubecon North America was in Chicago and had more than 13500 attendees and shows a continuous increase in adoption of...

  37. Universal Control Planes for Kubernetes and Beyond

    In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate from Upbound, the company behind Crossplane. Crossplane extends Kubernetes into becoming a universal control plane for more than what runs in Kubernetes, however, you get to manage everything in a...

  38. DevOpsDays Boston - Helping developers be more productive in a multi-cloud world

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Michael o'leary and Ibett A to talk about how developers can build multi-cloud secure architectures using Kubernetes and the principles of Shift Left and DevSecOps. Check out the KubernetesBytes website:...

  39. DevOpsDays Boston - Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Alexandre Pauwels and Kevin Scheunemann at DevOps Days Boston to talk all about IDPs and Platform Engineering. The discussion focuses on how organizations can build IDPs from open source tools and the how DevOps, SRE and Platform...

  40. DevOpsDays Boston - Real value of community

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Paul Bruce and Don Luchini - the organizers of DevOpsdays Boston and talk about the value of community, what DevOps means to them and how the event has evolved over the years. Listen in to learn more about what to expect when you...

  41. Kubernetes at the Edge

    In this Episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin and Ryan discuss Edge Computing and how Kubernetes and other platforms and distributions can help build better solutions for the edge. Join the Kubernetes Bytes slack using: https://bit.ly/k8sbytes Check out the KubernetesBytes website:...

  42. How Chick-fil-A adopts GitOps and K3s at the Edge

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner interview Brian Chambers, Chief Architect at Chick-fil-A. Brian walks through some of the design decisions, challenges and architecture of how Chick-fil-A uses Kubernetes at the edge in their restaurants. Join the Kubernetes Bytes...

  43. Nodeless Kubernetes - Optimizing costs with just in time compute

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Madhuri Yechuri and talk about all things Nodeless Kubernetes and how users can leverage the concept of Just in Time compute provisioning to prevent wasted spend on their cloud bills. Madhuri talks about LUNA and NOVA - a couple…

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  44. Solving Multicloud with Seamless Connectivity and AI - with Rob Croteau

    In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Rob Croteau of Avesha. Avesha is behind the open source project KubeSlice which aims to enable admins to seamlessly connect multiple Kubernetes clusters no matter where they are located with a few command or clicks. Learn about the...

  45. Kubernetes Observability 101

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin go back to school after the summer break and talk about What is Kubernetes Observability? They talk about how Observability is different from Monitoring, what are the three pillars of Observability and the CNCF projects viewers can check out to...

  46. Generative AI: The New Frontier in Kubernetes Problem-Solving

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Kyle Forster CEO at RunWhen - a platform for troubleshooting Kubernetes with Generative AI assistance. The discussion starts by talking about LLMs and GPTs, and why everyone is building a ChatBot powered by AI. They then talk about how...

  47. From Manual to Automatic: Revolutionizing Cloud Native Stack Deployment with Argonaut

    In this episode Bhavin and Ryan interview Surya Oruganti, Founder of Argonaut. This episode covers the complexities and challenges production Kubernetes environments encounter, how teams are often wrangling with infrastructure and pipelines rather than enabling teams to focus on developing value....

  48. Accelerating Kubernetes Adoption: Unleashing the Power of GitOps using Kubefirst

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with John Dietz and Jared Edwards - the co-founders of Kubefirst and talk about how users can accelerate their Kubernetes adoption by using Kubefirst. They talk about how Kubefirst allows users to leverage open-source tools and the...

  49. Continuous Security: Keeping Pace in the DevOps Lifecycle w/ ARMO

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Bhavin and Ryan talk with Shauli Rozen and Craig Box of ARMO security. The discussion focuses on how security mindsets and actions are shifting left to allow developers to include security practices earlier on in the application lifecycle. Also explored is the...

  50. Unleashing the power of KubeVirt - Running Containers and VMs on Kubernetes

    In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Sachin Mullick and Peter Lauterbach - the Product Management team at Red Hat focused on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and the open-source KubeVirt project and talk about how users can run containers and virtual machines...

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Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.

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