What does it take to support Kubernetes for other users? Kenneth Massada, a lead for GKE support at Google Cloud, tells Craig and Adam his story.
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Chatter

Adam lives in Seattle, which is on fire
Craig baked some tasty cookies

Using this recipe
But not using Vegemite, British Marmite or New Zealand Marmite, which are three totally separate things. Only one of which is nice.

Hint: it’s the last one





News of the week

2018 Kubernetes Steering Committee Elections
Binary Authorization on Google Kubernetes Engine
kube-hunter from Aqua Security

Video
Blog


Kubernetes issues and solutions from Alexander Lukyanchenko at Avito
Cilium 1.2 released

Accelerating Envoy with the Linux Kernel


James Lee’s blogs on Kubernetes networking
Amazon EKS supports GPU-Enabled EC2 instances

Links from the interview

etcd is hard:

Configuration flags
OpenAI suggestions on scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 nodes includes a separate events database
Kubernetes docs on configuring and upgrading etcd
Tina and Fred from Google SRE also discussed etcd on Episode 9
(Or use GKE, where we do it all for you)


Other hard concepts:

apiVersion: is hard
spec: is hard
Liveliness and readiness probes - don’t make them the same!
Joe Beda thinks of YAML as machine code in Episode 12


What would Ken like to see changed in Kubernetes?

Affinity and anti-affinity rules and topology keys


Kenneth Massada on Twitter

Or summon him with a GCP support case!