Apr 14, 2020
kpt (“kept”) is a new open-source tool for Kubernetes packaging built by Google Cloud. Morten Torkildsen is an engineer at Google, focusing on configuration management and the workloads APIs, and he worked on Kpt. He explains it to Adam, while Craig fills his mind with penguins.
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Chatter of the week
-
The Easter Bunny is an Essential Worker in New Zealand
- From the archives: Dragon research (discussed in Episode 53)
- Keepers are letting the penguins run loose at Oregon Zoo
News of the week
- CNCF projects:
- Volcano joins the Sandbox
- Dragonfly moves to incubation
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Argo moves to incubation
- Argo CVEs by Matt Hamilton of Soluble
- Docker announces Compose specification
- Nautilus: a tool for visualising Docker Compose files
- Deis Labs introduces Krustlet:
- Tekton now in Beta
- Microsoft publishes attack matrix for Kubernetes
- Huawei announces Mindspore deep learning framework
- Service Mesh Hub from Solo
- Mixerless Telemetry in Istio by Zsolt Varga of Banzai Cloud
- Amazon launches Fargate platform v1.4.0
- Rook 1.3
- Red Hat:
- Canonical launches managed apps
- When to use Helm and when to use Operators by Matt Butcher
- Controlling outbound traffic from Kubernetes by Jack Kleeman and Chongyang Shi at Monzo
- API Priority and Fairness Alpha by Min Kim, Mike Spreitzer and Daniel Smith
- Hubspot moves Zookeeper to Kubernetes
- Graceful shutdown in Kubernetes is not always trivial by Ilya Andreev from Flant
- Open Container Initiative icons
- Kubernetes Workshop in a Box by Pascal Widdershoven
Links from the interview
- kpt
- Kubernetes Resource Model
- helm template command
- kpt apply vs kubectl apply
- Configuration as Code
- kpt Setters
- Domain-specific languages
- Examples and Kubernetes examples you can use with kpt
- kpt functions
- Installing kpt
- kpt on GitHub
- Morten Torkildsen on Twitter