Aflevering 120: Let Them Cook — Inside the Kubernetes Recipes Cookbook
Aflevering 120: Let Them Cook — Inside the Kubernetes Recipes Cookbook
Luca and Greg explain how the idea for the book started: most Kubernetes books do a great job explaining theory, but very few show how to solve the messy, real-world issues engineers actually face.
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In this episode, we sit down with Luca Berton and Grzegorz (Greg) Stencel, authors of the brand-new book Kubernetes Recipes — a 400+ page cookbook packed with real, practical solutions for everyday Kubernetes challenges.
Luca and Greg explain how the idea for the book started: most Kubernetes books do a great job explaining theory, but very few show how to solve the messy, real-world issues engineers actually face.
So instead of writing “yet another reference manual,” they chose the cookbook format:
👉 a problem,
👉 a clear solution,
👉 and deeper explanations when needed.
We discuss:
- How they co-wrote the book late at night while balancing work, family life, and open source contributions.
- Why enterprise Kubernetes, especially in heavily regulated environments like finance, is a completely different beast.
- How their recipes cover everything from beginner topics to advanced CRDs, operators, networking, storage, NFS, stateful apps, and multi-cloud clusters.
- The tools that actually help developers — from KubeLens to vCluster.
- Why writing a book forces more accuracy and consistency than video tutorials.
- How they used real questions (including many from Stack Overflow) to choose the most relevant scenarios.
We also talk about the future of Kubernetes:
- Luca sees AI workloads, better observability, and complexity-reducing tooling as the next big wave.
- Greg stresses that developer experience must improve — especially for developers suddenly expected to “learn Kubernetes” overnight. And yes, cluster upgrades remain painful.
A fun and insightful conversation about practical Kubernetes knowledge, open source culture, and what engineers actually need today.
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