Orka, with Chris Chapman

Aug 20, 2019

Kubernetes and Docker might not seem the obvious choice for managing virtual macOS instances on hosted Apple hardware. Learn how they were used to build Orka - Orchestration for Kubernetes on Apple - a virtualisation layer for Mac build infrastructure offered by hosting company MacStadium. Craig and Adam ask MacStadium SVP of Software Chris Chapman about Orka, and how Kubernetes is useful in places you might not expect.

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Chatter of the week

• Letterboxing
  • Geocaching
  • Orienteering

News of the week

• HTTP/2 security bulletin from Netflix
  • New releases for:
    • Kubernetes
    • Istio
    • Envoy
    • gRPC
    • NGINX
  • And others
• CNCF archives the rkt project
• GitHub Actions is now a CI/CD service
  • Announcing preview of GitHub Actions for Azure
• Kubernetes web UIs in 2019 and Kubernetes Web View by Henning Jacobs
  • Episode 38: Kubernetes Failure Stories, with Henning Jacobs
• k3sup by Alex Ellis
  • Episode 57: Rancher Labs, with Darren Shepherd
• Evolving Istio’s APIs, by Sandeep Parikh and Louis Ryan
  • Episode 58: Istio 1.2, with Louis Ryan
  • Istio 1.3 release branch cut
• Intel GPU Plugin for Kubernetes by Brian Carey
• Kubernetes Gated Deployments at GoDaddy
• CNCF now has 100 end user members
• VMware, Pivotal and Dell:
  • VMware in talks to acquire Pivotal
  • Pivotal CTO: Kubernetes means we’re all distributed systems programmers now
  • Kubernetes is set to take over VMworld 2019
  • AT&T brings Dell into the Airship program
• Helm Summit EU 2019

Links from the interview

• MacStadium
• Orka
• Conference presentation videos from Chris:
  • macOS in a Docker container for development - MacADUK 2019
  • Announcing Orka - AltConf 2019
• Mac OS X Lion supports running additional OS X instances (up to two)
  • 10.7 EULA (PDF)
• Device test labs
• Docker for Mac
• Virtual Command, Chris’s prior company acquired by MacStadium
• The orca
• kubevirt
• Mac hardware:
  • Mac Pro (2013) - the “trashcan”
    • The MacStadium sled
  • Mac Pro 2019 - the return of the “cheesegrater”
  • T2 security chip
  • MacStadium in WWDC 2018 keynote
  • Inside the MacStadium data center
• JenkinsWorld 2019
  • Orka plugin for Jenkins
• Docker for Mac in macOS on Docker
  • Yo dawg, I hear you like Docker
  • Spinning top
  • Turducken
• MacStadium on Twitter