kind, with Ben Elder

Sep 3, 2019

kind stands for Kubernetes in Docker. Originally built for continuous integration (CI) and testing of Kubernetes itself, kind has found many uses, including acting as a cluster for bootstrapping other clusters. Original author Ben Elder from Google Cloud joins Craig and Adam to talk about it.

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Chatter of the week

• Adam’s new Seattle office building
• Example Quick Cryptic from The Times
• Example USA Today crossword
• New York Times crossword puzzle case study
• The NYT mini crossword
  • Craig’s record is 13 seconds!
• Times for the Times solver blog
• A puzzle in a tweet
  • The answer
  • Code Golf

News of the week

• Introducing Kubernetes Academy Brought To You By VMware
  • Kubernetes Academy Brought To You By VMware
• Knative serverless Kubernetes bypasses FaaS to revive PaaS
• Helm 3 Beta
  • To Helm or not to Helm? by Stepan Stipl
• Announcing etcd 3.4 by Gyuho Lee and Jingyi Hu
• Blocking old Cert Manager versions from Lets Encrypt
• Linux Namespaces by Ifeanyi Ubah
• How kubectl exec works by Erkan Erol
• Announcing the CNCF Kubernetes Project Journey Report
  • The report
• Adopting Istio for a multi-tenant kubernetes cluster in Production by Vishal Banthia
• StackRox 2.5
• Platform9 raises $25m in Series D
  • The first managed Kubernetes service on VMware?
• Dell previews data protection software for Kubernetes
• DNS spoofing in Kubernetes clusters by Daniel Sagi
• Dynamic Kubernetes informers by Robert Ross
• What’s next for Vault and Kubernetes?
• Consul 1.6 is now GA
• Kubernetes security audit: What GKE and Anthos users need to know
  • Managed AD now in Beta on Google Cloud
• Introducing Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 in Developer Preview; releasing nightly builds
  • Developer Preview now available on GCP
• Operational Insights for Containers and Containerized Applications
• Deploying GitOps with Weave Flux and Amazon EKS

Links from the interview

• Ben’s GSoC proposal and first Kubernetes project: use iptables for proxying instead of userspace
• kind webpage
  • Documentation
• kind on GitHub
• Privileged containers
• kubernetes CI
• Cluster API
• IPv6 on kind
• End to end testing
• Running Kubernetes in a CI pipeline by Loodse
• Cluster API logo - it’s turtles all the way down
• kubeadm
• cluster-api-provider-docker
• Other tools:
  • kinder
  • kindest
• Shoutouts to:
  • Antonio Ojea from SUSE
  • James Munnelly from JetStack
  • SIG Cluster Lifecycle
• Ben Elder on Twitter