Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We'll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth it.
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News of the week
Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level

KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report

Call for Proposals for KubeCon && CloudNativeCon North America 2026 closes May 31

OpenChoreo v1.0 CNCF Sandbox

Links from the interview
Lucy on Linkedin

Lucy's website

[Article] Migrating Uber's Compute Platform to Kubernetes

[Lucy Video] Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes

Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud

Peloton: Uber's Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads

Odin: Uber's Stateful Platform

Uber Batch platform

Apache Mesos

Hyrum's Law

GKE Blue-Green nodepools

Node Lifecycle Working Group

Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail

kubegpt.org

Osquery

Uber Careers

Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year's GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie's first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant.



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News of the week
Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here

LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project

CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE)

Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project

Links from the interview
Amie Wei on LinkedIn

GKE turns 10 Hackathon

Hackathon winner announcement

Online boutique sample

Bank of Anthos sample

The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE

Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.
 
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Links from the interview
Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.
 
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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.
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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