Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Drew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.
 
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Kubernetes v1.35: Timbernetes (The World Tree Release)

Janet Kuo, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program.
 
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Intro
KubeCon North America 2025

Kubernetes AI Conformance program

News of the Week
Kubernetes 1.35 release Sneak Peek

Helm4

Google Cloud Achieves Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster                  

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) AI Conformance

AKS Ingress Nginx Update

AKS Automatic managed system node pools

Amazon EKS Introduces New Managed Kubernetes Capabilities for Workload Orchestration

KubeCon NA 2025 Retrospective: Closed- And Open-Source Battle For The AI-Native Cloud

CNCF Launches Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Established to Standardize Agent Collaboration

KServe Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

OpenFGA accepted as CNCF Incubating Project

Lima accepted as CNCF Incubation Project

Lima v2.0 Released with Secure AI Workflows

KubeCon Cloud Native Con Europe 2026

 
Links from the interview
 
Kubernetes Software Conformance program

kubectl

Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) API

Kubernetes WG AI Conformance

Kubernetes SIG Architecture

Kubernetes SIG Testing

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes.
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News of the week
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation

llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference

vllm-project/semantic-router on github

Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC)

Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility

Links from the interview
Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way

MiniKube

Kind

Docker Compose

Docker Swarm

GKE Autopilot

Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

Google Cloud TPUs

Node Auto Provisioning (GKE)

Jax (Machine Learning Framework)

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)

Serverless on Google Cloud

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubectl-ai

Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)

Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta

In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers

GKE under the hood: Container-optimized compute delivers fast autoscaling for Autopilot

Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.
 
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News of the week
GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters

KCD H1 2026

Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project

Links from the interview
Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn

Antonio Ojea on X

Virtual Networks

Kubernetes Networking

Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

Kubernetes Gateway API

Calico

Cilium

Multi-Service CIDR

DRANet

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation.
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News of the week
Reddit Post
KubeCon NA
KubeCon NA Colo events
Jeager v2
Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE
Links from the interview
Shannon Kularathna
Kubernetes SIG Docs
Kubernetes Documentation
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
Kubernetes Code of Conduct
SIG Contributor Experience
Kubernetes Blog
Join the Kubernetes Slack
Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events
SIG Docs Meetings
Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository
Good First Issues for kubernetes/website
Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website