Why does a car manufacturer own an IT company? How did that IT company end up running 900 Kubernetes clusters, starting at version 0.9? Craig asks these questions and more of Sabine Wolz, Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation.
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Chatter of the week

Live UK political coverage on the day of recording. As predicted, news happened slightly faster than publication, and at the time of release, Boris Johnson is expected to resign as Conservative Party leader today.
Shibboleth
Lord of the Rings TV show moved to UK

News of the week

GKE Cost Allocation
CubeFS accepted as CNCF incubating project
Bare metal deployments for EKS Anywhere

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Cubernetes

Episode 20, with Justin Garrison




OpenShift Service Mesh 2.2
Tanzu Mission Control adds FluxCD
Pixie plugins
What GKE users need to know about Kubernetes’ new service account tokens, by Taahir Ahmed
Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation, by Jeremy Brown

Hacker News discussion


eBPF Summit 2022

Links from the interview

Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Truck
How should electric vehicles sound?
Ulm and its church
Sabine’s KubeCon keynote
How to Migrate 700 Kubernetes Clusters to Cluster API with Zero Downtime: Tobias Giese & Sean Schneeweiss
Game theory
FOSS Manifesto
Inner source
CNCF End User Community
The promise of flying cars
Sabine Wolz on LinkedIn