Aflevering 117: How Policy as Code Is Changing Kubernetes Forever

We explore the real question: Why does Kubernetes need policies if it’s already declarative? Jim explains how policy as code helps developers, operators, and security teams collaborate on cluster configuration at scale.

Carlos joins us to explore what it really takes to run AI workloads on Kubernetes, from GPU scheduling to scaling inference and training efficiently across clusters.

A fascinating deep dive into what’s next for CRDs, extensibility, and how academia and open source innovation intersect in the Kubernetes world.

Nicolas helps us unpack why tracing is often the missing pillar of observability — and whether it might one day make traditional logs obsolete. Loft Labs’ open-source project that lets you run full virtual Kubernetes clusters inside another cluster.

James, who is also a maintainer of Ingress-NGINX, explains why the project is being phased out and how the community is building its successor

In this episode, we talk with Rodrigo Kuntzer and Andre Mocke from Miro. Their platform enables large-scale, real-time collaboration for thousands of users – and that comes with unique challenges when running on Kubernetes. We cover topics such as: Why stateful workloads and WebSockets are tricky to run in Kubernetes. How Miro tackles scalability and reliability for long-lived connections. The lessons learned while building their own solutions for load balancing and graceful shutdowns. How Kubernetes’ flexibility helps them continue to grow their product. An episode full of practical experiences, technical takeaways, and inspiration for anyone working with real-time applications or Kubernetes at scale.

Chris explains that Kubernetes is much more than just a container orchestrator. Thanks to extensions and CRDs, it is increasingly seen as the “Linux of the cloud”

Tim legt uit hoe je Cluster API technologie het opzetten en beheren van Kubernetes-clusters sterk vereenvoudigt door alles te abstraheren en te automatiseren. Vanuit een zogeheten management cluster kun je eenvoudig workload clusters uitrollen, ongeacht of dat nu op hardware, VMware, of een cloudprovider is.

We bespreken hoe OpenTelemetry werkt met metrics, logs en traces, en hoe Dash0 ontwikkelaars helpt om overzicht te houden zonder complexe configuraties.