Kubernetes Engineering Takeaways

Nirmal and I recorded this special offline episode at KubeCon North America in Salt Lake City. We hung out at the AWS booth to break down the major trends and developments from the conference.

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The event drew a record-breaking 10,000 attendees, with roughly half being first-timers to the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Starting with Cloud Native Rejekts and moving through the pre-conference events, we noticed Platform Engineering emerged as the dominant theme, with its dedicated conference track drawing standing-room-only crowds.

The main conference showcased a notable surge in new vendors, particularly in AI and security sectors, representing about a quarter of all exhibitors. We dissect the key engineering trends, ongoing challenges in Cloud Native adoption, and insights gathered from various conferences including ArgoCon, BackstageCon, and Wasm Day. In our 40-minute discussion, we tried to capture the essence of what made this year's KubeCon significant. It's a great listen whether you couldn't attend or if you're a veteran of the Cloud Native community.

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Show Links
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"VM-like container runtime": Microsoft's Hyperlight https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog...
Hyperlight Rejekts talk    • Hyperlight: Process VMs  
Viktor Farcic demo of Port: https://www.getport.io/
Akcess, easy K8s RBAC CLI    • Akcess | Share Fine Grained Access Of...  
Open source community Cloud Native Operational Excellence: https://cnoe.io/

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Chapters 📖
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00:00 The Hook 😎
01:31 KubeCon Rejekts
02:42 Better Than Namespaces
04:56 Day 0
06:12 BackstageCon and Platform Interfaces
09:56 Argo CD and Deployment Dashboards
11:15 GitOps Bridge: Bridging Infrastructure and GitOps
12:07 Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator (KRO)
13:40 Fleet Management in Kubernetes
15:28 Ford's Approach to Kubernetes Tooling
16:52 CNOE: Community-Driven Kubernetes Reference Architectures
23:34 AI Integration in Kubernetes Tools
31:13 Managing Infrastructure at Scale with Karpenter
32:23 KubeCon Highlights and Future Trends