Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally, by running a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your desktop or laptop. Craig and Adam talk to author and maintainer Dan Lorenc from Google Cloud, and in the wake of the Super Bowl, discuss how “football” means something different to each of them.
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Chatter of the week

Adam watched the Super Bowl
Craig watched some Superb Owls

Outside the UK, you can watch them here


You can watch some ads

But not the ad for Blue Origin, which was pulled
Snow day in Seattle!
Jeff Bezos at the Super Bowl
The Daily Mail is not really news


Jeff Bezos’s earnings per minute

News of the week

Spark Operator for Kubernetes now in Beta

IBM Cloud Databases report on the Operator Pattern


New members in the CNCF TOC

Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks
Brendan Burns from Microsoft
Joe Beda from VMware
Matt Klein from Lyft
Xiang Li from Alibaba
Kelsey Hightower from Google


Google Kubernetes Engine usage metering
Advanced application deployments and traffic management with Istio on GKE

GitHub repo
Megan’s development workflow for Kubernetes


Ambassador 0.5.0

API Gateways are going through an identity crisis


Kubernetes as an API standard; looking toward a Rust implementation

Links from the interview

Dan leads a team working on:

Minikube
Skaffold
Kaniko
Knative Build


Minikube was helped in the early days by Localkube from RedSpread, who were acquired by CoreOS (who were acquired by Red Hat, who were acquired by IBM)

There was also Boot2docker, but Kubernetes didn’t like Docker-in-Docker much back then


Guide for developing Minikube
Other similar projects:

Microk8s
Docker Desktop


Things it was hard to get working:

Load balancers; solved via tunneling
Persistent volume provisioning, solved with a custom hostpath provisioner


Minikube Roadmap
Dan Lorenc on GitHub and on the web