AutoTrader UK were an early adopter of Istio. Adopting it to meet GDPR requirements for encrypted traffic, Head of Infrastructure and Operations Russell Warman and lead engineer Karl Stoney have gone on to use it to reduce resource usage, and thus cost, as well as uncover bugs in their applications. They talk to Craig about it, while Adam serves his country.
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Microsoft and Red Hat announce KEDA

ZDNet coverage


Updates from Microsoft: AKS virtual nodes GA, DevSpaces GA, Policy in Preview

AKS 1.9 end-of-life
Banzai Cloud: PKE on Azure
Banzai’s Chart Repository Service


Remote development with VS Code
DockerCon:

Docker Enterprise 3.0
Docker Foundation


Monzo Response:

GitHub
Chris Evans presenting at DevOps Exchange London
Music: Response


Velero v1.0.0-beta.1 is out
Grafana dashboards for Kubernetes administrators by Povilas Versockas
KubeCon EU Diversity Lunch and Hack
Red Hat Quay v3
Rook 1.0

Episode 36 with Jared Watts


5G Depends on Kubernetes in the Cloud, according to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

He also says Airship 1.0 marries Kubernetes and OpenStack for 5G’s good
Airship 1.0 release notes



Links from the interview

Autotrader UK
Craig, Russell and Karl in the studio
Craig’s 1993 Vauxhall Cavalier
GCP Case study

Auto Trader UK cuts IT resource use through Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Istio adoption
How Auto Trader UK, the UK’s largest automotive marketplace, uses Istio and Google Kubernetes Engine to drive change
Russell on theCUBE at Google Cloud Next


Mutual TLS encryption in Istio
Onramp to Istio: An Adoption Story Google Cloud Next session with Dan Ciruli, Russell Warman and Karl Stoney
Managing your costs on Kubernetes: Karl’s blog post
Istio 1.1 feature: Sidecar resources

Reduced CPU cycles by 90%


15,000 releases per year
Russell Warman and Karl Stoney on Twitter