Optiva and Arctiq, with Dan Dyer and Kyle Bassett
Dan Dyer is Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management at Optiva (https://optiva.com/) , a provider of business support services to the telecommunications industry. Optiva have been moving services to Kubernetes, and with the help of Kyle Bassett and team from Arctiq (https://www.arctiq.ca/) , a cloud-native consultancy, kicking the tyres of Anthos and GKE On-Prem. Adam and Craig (https://kubernetespodcast.com/about) learn about this journey from Dan and Kyle, and discuss dragons and foxes.
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Chatter of the week
• Baby foxes (https://twitter.com/craigbox/status/1127169999968325637)
• Aaron Crickenberger interview (https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/05/13/cat-shirts-and-groundhog-day-the-kubernetes-1.14-release-interview/) on the Kubernetes blog
• Dragon research (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12230351)
News of the week
• Red Hat:
• RHEL 8 and the Universal Base Image (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image)
• OpenShift 4 (https://blog.openshift.com/introducing-red-hat-openshift-4/)
• Operators all the way down (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-kubernetes-operatorhub-red-hat-openshift-enable-hybrid-cloud-flexibility-enterprises)
• Microsoft Azure OpenHat (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/azure-red-hat-openshift-kubernetes-service-jointly-managed-microsoft-red-hat-now-available)
• US DoJ approves IBM’s acqusition of Red Hat (https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/doj-approves-ibms-34-billion-red-hat-acquisition/)
• F5 closes its acquisition of NGINX (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190509005210/en/F5-Completes-Acquisition-NGINX)
• Docker CEO Steve Singh steps down (https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/steve-singh-stepping-down-as-docker-ceo/)
• Alpine Linux root escalation: CVE-2019-5021 (https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Docker-image-vulnerability-CVE-2019-5021.html)
• Go Distroless! (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless)
• Introducing GitHub Package Registry (https://github.blog/2019-05-10-introducing-github-package-registry/)
• VS Code extension for Kubernetes (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-kubernetes-tools.vscode-kubernetes-tools) goes 1.0 (changelog (https://github.com/Azure/vscode-kubernetes-tools/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) )
• WSL 2 brings Linux to Windows (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/)
• Gravitational: AWS vs Colo? (https://gravitational.com/blog/aws_vs_colocation/) and Hacker News debate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19840042)
• k8s.af (https://k8s.af/) with Kubernetes failure stories (https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/038-kubernetes-failure-stories/)
• Google Cloud launches GKE in Osaka, Tokyo (https://cloud-ja.googleblog.com/2019/05/Google-Cloud-launches-new-Osaka-region-to-support-growing-customer-base-in-Japan.html?m=1)
• KubeCon US 2019 CFP opens (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2019/cfp/)
• Railyard: Training ML models on Kubernetes at Stripe (https://stripe.com/gb/blog/railyard-training-models)
• KubeOne (https://www.loodse.com/blog/2019-05-13-kubeone/) from Loodse
• Kubedex: Kubernetes operating systems (https://kubedex.com/kubernetes-operating-systems/)
• Akrobateo, a general-purpose load balancer for Kubernetes (https://blog.kontena.io/akrobateo-general-purpose-loadbalancer-for-k8s/) from Kontena
• Optimization of etcd at web-scale (https://www.cncf.io/blog/2019/05/09/performance-optimization-of-etcd-in-web-scale-data-scenario/) by Xingyu Chen
Links from the interview
• Optiva (https://optiva.com/)
• Arctiq (https://www.arctiq.ca/)
• Kyle Bassett (https://twitter.com/kylebassett) on Twitter
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