Taylor Dolezal is a senior Developer Advocate at Hashicorp and the Kubernetes 1.19 release lead. His desire to give talks and join the CNCF Ambassadors led him to the release team and to his new job. He talks to Adam and Craig about how a TI-83 calculator started him on the path.
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Chatter of the week

The Moon Disaster deepfake
Mayfield Lavender Farm

News of the week

Kubernetes 1.19 release - deferred 24 hours
Istio 1.7 release!
New Istio Steering Committee charter
k3s to join the CNCF Sandbox
New networking features in GKE
Anthos announcements from Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Code updates
Serverless Framework Knative component
VMware vRealize Operations 8.2
Moving forward from Beta in Kubernetes
Palinurus, from Mailchannels
What’s new in Falco 0.25
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes

GCP Config Connector


Carvel
Operator SDK reaches 1.0
Thanos and Cortex are both incubating in the CNCF
The Kubernetes Handbook by Farhan Hasin Chowdhury

Links from the interview

TI-83 Plus Silver Edition
Walt Disney Studios
“Deployed my blog on Kubernetes”
Hashicorp

Terraform


CNCF Ambassador
1.14 release team
1.18 release team

Episode 96, with Jorge Alarcon


1.19 enhancement sheet

Ingress goes stable
12 month release support cycle


Lauri Apple, PgM for SIG Release
Sidecar containers.. still
Jeremy Rickard is 1.20 release team lead

Episode 61 with Jeremy Rickard and Ralph Squillace


Nomad, from Hashicorp
Hashicorp joins the CNCF
CNCF Cape, as modeled by Lachie Evenson
Reading list:

Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larsen
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
Defending Jacob


Taylor Dolezal on Twitter