Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:58:42 +0000
<p>If you’d like something more tangible than a virtual cloud instance, there’s always (still!) bare metal. Tinkerbell is a project from Equinix Metal to manage bare metal servers at scale, and <a href="https://twitter.com/gianarb">Gianluca Arbezzano</a> is one of its maintainers. We talk stacks, racks and MACs.</p> <p>Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:</p> <ul> <li>web: <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com">kubernetespodcast.com</a></li> <li>mail: <a href="mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com">kubernetespodcast@google.com</a></li> <li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kubernetespod">@kubernetespod</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="chatter-of-the-week">Chatter of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/011-helm/">Episode 11, with Vic Iglesias</a></li> <li>Vic lives <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Santa+Barbara,+CA,+USA">here</a>, but not <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/inside-meghan-and-harry-s-new-14-7m-nine-bed-16-bath-california-home-1.4329424"> here</a></li> <li><a href="https://nianticlabs.com/blog/stay-safe/">Pokémon Go social distancing</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://fluxcd.io/blog/2021/03/flux-is-a-cncf-incubation-project/"> Flux moves to incubation in the CNCF</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.netapp.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-rel-20210310-637554/"> NetApp Astra goes GA</a>; <a href="https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/blg-astra-data-management-services-for-kubernetes-applications"> more information</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fairwinds.com/news/fairwinds-introduces-saffire-an-open-source-project-to-eliminate-a-common-single-point-of-failure-in-kubernetes-clusters"> Fairwinds introduces Saffire</a></li> <li><a href="https://dlorenc.medium.com/cosign-signed-container-images-c1016862618"> Cosign, by Dan Lorenc</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/039-minikube/">Episode 39</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://komodor.com/blog/komodor-beta-calling-all-k8s-users/">Komodor beta</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/m5mf6e/komodor_a_troubleshooting_k8snative_platform_is/"> swag offer</a></li> <li><a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/announcing-private-kubernetes-clusters"> Announcing Private Clusters</a> on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)</li> <li><a href="https://linkerd.io/2021/03/11/announcing-linkerd-2.10/">Linkerd 2.10</a></li> <li>The Money Section, with thanks to <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/127-pop-punk-to-pods/">David Pait, guest of Episode 127</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.docker.com/press-release/Docker-Series-B">Docker takes $23m in Series “B” funding</a> to <a href="https://www.docker.com/blog/helping-dev-teams-get-ship-done/">get ship done</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.aquasec.com/news/aqua-security-announces-135-million-in-series-e-funding-at-a-1-billion-valuation/"> Aqua Security takes $135m in Series E</a> at $1b valuation</li> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/10/snyk-raises-300-million-at-a-4-7-billion-valuation-as-employees-cash-in-and-the-security-company-beefs-up/"> Snyk raises $300m in Series E</a> valuing company at $4.7 billion</li> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/10/tetrate-the-company-born-out-of-istios-open-source-app-networking-project-raises-40-million/"> Tetrate raises $40m Series B</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://danielmangum.com/posts/crossplane-infrastructure-llvm/">Is Crossplane the Infrastructure LLVM?</a> by Daniel Mangum <ul> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/141-crossplane/">Episode 141</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP">PHP</a>. and <a href="https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2020">PHP in 2020</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Turin,+Metropolitan+City+of+Turin,+Italy/"> Turin</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.influxdata.com/">InfluxData</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/091-ebpf-and-falco/">Episode 91, with Leonardo Di Donato</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/"> Dropbox’s exodus from Amazon</a></li> <li><a href="https://metal.equinix.com/">Equinix Metal</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/14/equinix-is-acquiring-bare-metal-cloud-provider-packet/"> Packet acquired by Equinix</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://tinkerbell.org/">Tinkerbell</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.opencompute.org/">OpenCompute</a> and <a href="https://www.open19.org/">Open19</a></li> <li>Server terminology: <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing">Next Unit of Computing (NUC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface#Baseboard_management_controller"> Baseboard management controller (BMC)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment">Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk">Floppy disks</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://gianarb.it/blog/homelab-diy-bmc-intel-nuc">DIY Board management control for an Intel NUC: power control</a></li> <li>Tinkerbell services: <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/tink">Tink</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/boots">Boots</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/osie">OSIE</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/hook">Hook</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/hegel">Hegel</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tinkerbell/pbnj">PB&J</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU">OVH fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://metal.equinix.com/blog/how-tinkerbell-got-its-wings/">How Tinkerbell Got Its Wings, including joining the CNCF</a></li> <li><a href="https://tinkerbell.org/community/">Tinkerbell community</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/136-backstage/">Episode 136: Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/gianarb">Gianluca Arbezzano on Twitter</a> and <a href="https://gianarb.it/">on the web</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/tinkerbell_oss">Tinkerbell on Twitter</a></li> </ul>
