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Crossplane lets you automate creation of infrastructure using Kubernetes APIs. Daniel Mangum is a Crossplane maintainer working at its creator Upbound, a TL of Kubernetes SIG Release, and a YouTube streaming star. He chats about tech with host Craig Box, who is helped this week by returning guest Ken Massada from GKE’s Support team.

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Chatter of the week

• Episode 18, with Ken Massada
• Things We Don’t Say podcast
• Glow in the dark sharks
• Earthquakes and tsunamis

News of the week

• Microsoft Ignite news:
  • Azure Arc for Kubernetes
  • Azure Migrate app containerization service
  • AKS release notes
  • Microsoft Mesh
• Helm second security audit
• Meet Brigade v2
• Harbor 2.2 and roadmap
• Google Summer of Code 2021
• KubeCon EU 2021 schedule launched and the selection process explained
• Issue #100000 on kubernetes/kubernetes

Links from the interview

• Visual Basic for Applications
• NYT article on retro computing
• Compiler Explorer
• Rich Code for Tiny Computers by Jason Turner
• Upbound
  • Episode 36, with Jared Watts
• Crossplane
  • Crossplane vs Terraform blog by Nic Cope
  • Compositions and XRDs
  • Crossplane vs Cloud Infrastructure Add-ons
  • TBS episode with Matt Moore of Knative
  • Helm provider
  • July 2020: Crossplane joins the CNCF
    • LFX mentorship program
  • Dec 2020: v1.0
  • Mar 2021: v1.1
• Kubernetes SIG Release
• doc.crds.dev
• Upcoming KubeCon talk: FPGK8s: Consumer-Grade FPGAs on Kubernetes
  • Cutting GTA loading times by 70% and how YAML parsing can become quadratic
• Daniel’s current hirsuteness
• The Binding Status
• Flake-Finder Fridays
• Daniel Mangum on Twitter and on the web