In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Phil Andrews, Global Field CTO at Cast AI about all things AI. The discussion starts by talking about why you don't need an Opus class or Fable/Mythos class model for each task, and how Kimchi from Cast AI can help manage the quality of your output with the cost associated with routing between different models. They also talk about Omni which allows customers to get GPUs across hyperscalers and neocloud providers. Listen to learn more! 

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Show Notes:

 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-andrews-iii/
 * https://cast.ai/kimchi/
 * https://docs.cast.ai/docs/omni-overview 
 * https://cast.ai/blog/

Optimizing AI spend with Cast AI

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Alex Zenla, Founder and CTO of Edera. The discussion starts by talking about why Alex and team decided to start Edera, where in the stack does it fit in, and how can it work with existing Kubernetes clusters. They also talk about GPU security, what Kubernetes DRA is, and how to plan for the new era of Mythos-class models. Listen to learn more! 

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 * https://kubernetesbytes.com/    

Show Notes: 

 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/azenla/
 * https://edera.dev/
 * https://github.com/azenla 
 * https://edera.dev/stories

Securing Kubernetes for the Mythos Era

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI about all things Software Delivery. The discussion starts by talking about the evolution of Software Delivery over the last decade, but then dives into how Vibe coding impacts CI pipelines. Rob also shares his insights about running an AI-first engineering organization at CircleCI. Listen to learn more! 

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Show Notes:

 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzuber/
 * https://circleci.com/
 * https://circleci.com/blog/

More Code, More Problems: Software Delivery in the Agentic Era

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin talks to Anthony Woods about all things Grafana Labs, Observability, Telemetry, and how AI impacts both of these ecosystems. The discussion starts off by talking about the early days of Grafana Labs, what is Adaptive Telemetry, and how AI plays a role both in building Observability capabilities in applications, and how it helps perform root cause analysis. Listen to learn more!   

Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/      

Show Notes:  

 * GrafanaCON 2026: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDGkOdUX1UjoSfz1IRj5c0xetw8tl8iin&si=JpT85m4t4bP8ZXgX  
 * Grafana Labs Blog: https://grafana.com/blog/  
 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonywoods1/

Building Grafana Labs and the Future of Observability with Anthony Woods

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Janakiram MSV about all things KubeVirt. The discussion starts off by talking about the need for KubeVirt and then dives into the details of the KubeVirt architecture, and what you need to do when deploying virtual machines on Kubernetes, including commercial solutions like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Virtualization.   

Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/    

Show Notes: 

 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDwfPuWlsl0 
 * https://janakiram.com/resources/ 
 * https://kubevirt.io/

Kubernetes for VMware Admins: Understanding KubeVirt

Join Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah for season 6 of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. In this episode Bhavin talks to Adrian Mouat, Dev Rel at Chainguard about all things Kubernetes Security. They discuss CVEs, the different vulnerability databases, and how platform engineers can use Chainguard images to protect against CVEs.    Links: 

 * https://www.chainguard.dev/
 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmouat/ 
 * https://slsa.dev/

Secure your Kubernetes applications with Chainguard

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner as they speak with Jemiah Sius, Senior Director of Developer Relations at New Relic to talk about how to get started with learning about Kubernetes. They hosts and Jemiah explore how this has changed within the last 10 years as well as explore what are some good resources for learning and diving in.  

Links 

 *  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemiahsius/   [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemiahsius/]
 *  https://newrelic.com/   [https://newrelic.com/]
 * https://newrelic.com/events/new-relic-now/roadshow 
 * https://www.udemy.com/topic/kubernetes/

Diving Into Kubernetes: The Developer’s First Steps with New Relic

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Edith (Edi) Puclla, Technology Evangelist at Percona to talk about Percona Everest. The conversation focuses on Percona's investment in the Open-source ecosystem, and how they keep innovating with Percona Monitoring and Management and Percona Everest. The discussion also dives into how the community is expanding and supporting more use cases with Data on Kubernetes and AI on Kubernetes.  

Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/  

Cloud Native News:

 * http://businesswire.com/news/home/20250227229731/en/Veeam-Releases-Kasten-for-Kubernetes-v7.5-Elevating-its-1-Data-Resilience-Market-Position-with-Enhanced-Security-and-Modern-Virtualization/
 * https://www.developer-tech.com/news/kubescape-achieves-major-milestone-in-open-source-kubernetes-security/
 * https://thenewstack.io/postgresql-operator-cloudnativepg-hits-the-cncf-sandbox/
 * https://backendnews.net/tenable-report-finds-security-gaps-in-kubernetes-environments/
 * https://www.infoworld.com/article/3832760/red-hat-openshift-improves-virtualization-support.html 
 * https://edera.dev/stories/series-a - https://www.datastax.com/blog/ibm-plans-to-acquire-datastax  

Show links:  

 * https://github.com/percona/pmm
 * https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
 * https://github.com/percona/everest 
 * https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mysql-operator 
 * https://github.com/percona/percona-server-mongodb-operator 
 * https://github.com/percona/percona-postgresql-operator 
 * https://forums.percona.com/
 * https://github.com/percona
 * https://www.cncf.io/blog/2024/06/28/celebrating-10-years-of-kubernetes-the-evolution-of-database-operators/ 
 * https://dok.community/ 
 * https://www.linkedin.com/in/edithpuclla/  

Timestamps: 

 * 00:07:40 Cloud Native News 
 * 00:17:40 Interview with Edith 
 * 00:58:05 Key takeaways

Database as a service with Percona Everest

Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024.  

Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ 

 * https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241119538933/en/Spectro-Cloud-Closes-75m-Series-C-Led-by-Growth-Equity-at-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives
 * https://northflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m-to-make-kubernetes-work-for-your-developers-ship-workloads-not-infrastructure
 * https://snyk.io/news/snyk-acquires-developer-first-dast-provider-probely/
 * https://www.nutanix.com/blog/introducing-nutanix-enterprise-ai 
 * https://thenewstack.io/stacklok-donates-minder-security-project-to-openssf/
 * https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/akamai-launches-cloud-agnostic-ready-to-run-application-platform-302302446.html 
 * https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241112064093/en/Loft-Labs-Introduces-vCluster-Cloud-a-Managed-Solution-to-Simplify-and-Reduce-Costs-of-Kubernetes
 * https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-65k-nodes-and-counting 
 * https://www.veeam.com/resources/wp-whats-new-veeam-kasten-for-kubernetes.html
 * https://www.netapp.com/blog/trident-24-10-best-storage-kubernetes/
 * https://podman-desktop.io/blog/2024/11/14/podman-desktop-cncf 
 * https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/streamline-kubernetes-cluster-management-with-new-amazon-eks-auto-mode/
 * https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/12/amazon-eks-hybrid-nodes/
 * https://thenewstack.io/kueue-can-now-schedule-kubernetes-batch-jobs-across-clusters/ 
 * https://cloudnativenow.com/kubecon-cnc-na-2024/solo-io-donates-api-gateway-to-cncf-to-advance-kubernetes-connectivity/
 * https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/11/08/tintri-unveils-kubernetes-container-storage-interface-for-streamlined-management/ 
 * https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/stringerai-announcements/kubiya-launches-captain-kubernetes-ai-tool-for-simplifying-kubernetes-management/
 * https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/application-dev/cncf-automates-kubernetes-secops-with-kyverno/
 * https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2024/11/15/cloud-native-computing-foundation-expands-certification-to-platform-engineering-and-more/  
 * https://training.linuxfoundation.org/platform-engineering-programs 
 * https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/cncf-kubevirt-v1-4-vms-are-now-just-another-kubernetes-resource/
 * https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/release_notes/
 * kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12/11/kubernetes-v1-32-release/
 * https://thehackernews.com/2024/12/296000-prometheus-instances-exposed.html?utm_source=tldrdevops

KubeCon NA 2024 News Recap

In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Tobi Knaup, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix about all things Kubernetes and AI. The discussion focuses on how Kubernetes has evolved since the early days, and why it's architecture is a perfect fit for accelerating adoption of AI workloads inside organizations.   

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Increasing AI adoption using Kubernetes

Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.