Minikube Redux, with Thomas Strömberg

Aug 4, 2020

Since we last spoke about Minikube 18 months ago, the project has gone 1.0, and made large performance and usability improvements. Thomas Strömberg is the manager of the Container DevEx team at Google and a maintainer of Minikube. He talks to Craig and Adam about why system administrators are the best code reviewers, the importance of surveying users, and building bikes made of bamboo.

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Chatter of the week

• Baking hot
• Baking:
  • Mary Berry’s Banana Loaf
  • Caramel Slice
• Washington State Voters Guide
• Lord Buckethead
• Monty Python’s Election Night Special

News of the week

• OpenSSF launched
• Nova from Fairwinds: monitor Helm charts for new releases
• Lifebelt by Gustav Westling
• Chaos Mesh joins the CNCF Sandbox
• As does the Serverless Workflow spec
• Announcing Vitess 7
• Spinnaker Operator is GA
• AKS 2020-07-27 release
• GKE r25
• Server side encryption for ECR
• Project report: Jaeger
  • Episode 97 with Yuri Shkuro
• How Dropbox migrated from NGINX to Envoy by Alexey Ivanov and Oleg Guba

Links from the interview

• Thomas Strömberg
• Minikube
• Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
• DiRT: Disaster Recovery Testing
  • Wheel of Misfortune
• Timex Sinclair ZX81
• Bringing Minikube to the next Billion Users: Thomas’s talk at KubeCon China 2019
• The mini Minikube Survey
• Other similar tools:
  • Microk8s
  • k3d
  • kind
• Knoppix
• Pausing Minikube
• Running multiple nodes
• Triage Party
• Slow Jam
  • Space Jam
• Bamboo bicycles
  • A finished example
  • A work in progress
• Thomas Strömberg on Twitter