Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com Intro KubeCon North America 2025 Kubernetes AI Conformance program News of the Week Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek Helm4 Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance AKS Ingress Nginx Update AKS Automatic managed system node pools Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026 Links from the interview Kubernetes Software Conformance program kubectl Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API Kubernetes WG AI Conformance Kubernetes SIG Architecture Kubernetes SIG Testing

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: [email protected] X: @kubernetespod bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference vllm-project/semantic-router on github Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC) Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility Links from the interview Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way MiniKube Kind Docker Compose Docker Swarm GKE Autopilot Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Google Cloud TPUs Node Auto Provisioning (GKE) Jax (Machine Learning Framework) Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Serverless on Google Cloud Grafana Prometheus Kubectl-ai Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters KCD H1 2026 Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project Links from the interview Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn Antonio Ojea on X Virtual Networks Kubernetes Networking Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Kubernetes Gateway API Calico Cilium Multi-Service CIDR DRANet

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Reddit Post KubeCon NA KubeCon NA Colo events Jeager v2 Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE Links from the interview Shannon Kularathna Kubernetes SIG Docs Kubernetes Documentation Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal Kubernetes Code of Conduct SIG Contributor Experience Kubernetes Blog Join the Kubernetes Slack Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events SIG Docs Meetings Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository Good First Issues for kubernetes/website Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website

Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: [email protected] - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week GKE 10 years Hackathon Golden Kubestronauts 100 members Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose Links from the interview Vyom Yadav Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak