lystn

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.

Want to see Adam’s puzzles? Let us know:

• web: kubernetespodcast.com
• mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com
• twitter: @kubernetespod

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