The Noob Show

In this episode, I talk with Lance Johnson, the Director, Engineering and Cloud R&D, about Kubernetes, using it as a hobby, in the enterprise, and how you'd explain it to a 5 year old.

Show Notes

Kubernetes is a Playground

Discussed:
  • Kubernetes - The main topic and the container orchestration system originally built and open sourced at Google.
  • Lens - a visual kubernetes tool
  • Visual Studio Code - A Code Editor
  • helm - The package manager for Kubernetes
  • kind - Kubernetes in Docker
  • Micro k8s - Simple lightweight production grade kubernetes by Canonical, the maintainers of Ubuntu.
  • k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
  • Reinvent - Amazon Web Services conference
  • EKS - Amazon's managed kubernetes service
  • GKE - Google's managed kubernetes service
  • Preemptible Nodes - Short lived nodes on Google that are a fraction of the normal cost.
  • DKS - Digital Ocean's managed kubernetes service 
  • Kustomize - Kubernetes native config management
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Creators and Guests

Host
Matt Gardner
I'm your host of The Noob Show!
Guest
Lance Johnson
Dir. Engineering, Cloud R&D

What is The Noob Show?

The Noob Show is a podcast about humanizing technology and learning how people got their start. We cover topics like Kubernetes, Developer Relations, software development, new tech, old tech, and how those went from noobs to experts.

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