<description>&lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/garisingh/"&gt;Gari Singh&lt;/a&gt; about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;web: &lt;a href= "https://kubernetespodcast.com/"&gt;kubernetespodcast.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;X: &lt;a href= "https://x.com/kubernetespod"&gt;@kubernetespod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;bluesky: &lt;a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/kubernetespodcast.com"&gt;@kubernetespodcast.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;News of the week&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2025/10/08/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-knatives-graduation/"&gt; Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://llm-d.ai/blog/llm-d-v0.3-expanded-hardware-faster-perf-and-igw-ga"&gt; llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router?tab=readme-ov-file"&gt; vllm-project/semantic-router on github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/10/27/announcing-the-certified-meshery-contributor-cmc/"&gt; Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/10/06/introducing-headlamp-plugin-for-karpenter/"&gt; Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt;Links from the interview&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way"&gt;Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/"&gt;MiniKube&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/"&gt;Kind&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://docs.docker.com/compose/"&gt;Docker Compose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://docs.docker.com/engine/swarm/"&gt;Docker Swarm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/autopilot-overview?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&amp;utm_medium=external&amp;utm_source=podcast"&gt; GKE Autopilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/"&gt; Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://cloud.google.com/tpu?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&amp;utm_medium=external&amp;utm_source=podcast"&gt; Google Cloud TPUs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/node-auto-provisioning?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&amp;utm_medium=external&amp;utm_source=podcast"&gt; Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://github.com/google/jax"&gt;Jax (Machine Learning Framework)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/"&gt; Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://cloud.google.com/serverless?utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&amp;utm_medium=external&amp;utm_source=podcast"&gt; Serverless on Google Cloud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://grafana.com/"&gt;Grafana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://prometheus.io/"&gt;Prometheus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai"&gt;Kubectl-ai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/autoscaling/#scaling-workloads-vertically"&gt; Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/05/16/kubernetes-v1-33-in-place-pod-resize-beta/"&gt; Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/resize-container-resources/"&gt; In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr" role="presentation"&gt;&lt;a href= "https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/container-optimized-compute-delivers-autoscaling-for-autopilot?e=48754805&amp;utm_campaign=CDR_0x4cdf54f9_default_b456276012&amp;utm_medium=external&amp;utm_source=podcast"&gt; GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p dir="ltr"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

OCT 29, 202542 MIN
Kubernetes Podcast from Google

GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

OCT 29, 202542 MIN

Description

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