Pop Punk to Pods, with David Pait

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:41:10 +0000

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/SparksTheDave">David Pait</a> was a touring musician in pop punk band Sparks The Rescue. Now, he’s an SRE working on Kubernetes at an ad-tech company. How did he get there? And if you’re looking to change careers, how might you? <a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/about">Craig and Adam</a> dig in.</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://store.steampowered.com/sale/tabletopfest">Steam Digital Tabletop Fest</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense">Microsoft Surface (since renamed PixelSense)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.horribleguild.com/similo-the-card-game/">Similo</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guess_Who%3F">Guess Who?</a></li> <li><strong><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/survey-notes/?week2">Click here to take the Audience Survey</a></strong>: thank you for helping us make a better show for you!</li> </ul> <h3 id="news-of-the-week">News of the week</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cloud-foundry-foundation-members-double-down-on-the-cloud-foundry-developer-experience-for-kubernetes-at-second-virtual-summit/"> Cloud Foundry Doubles Down on Kubernetes</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cloud-foundrys-proven-developer-experience-comes-to-kubernetes-with-cf-for-k8s-1-0/"> cf-for-k8s 1.0</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cloud-foundry-ecosystem-coalesces-around-kubernetes-with-significant-project-updates-announced-by-cloud-foundry-foundation/"> Ecosystem updates</a></li> <li><a href="https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/105-cloud-foundry/">Episode 105, with Chip Childers</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/10/20/announcing-akri-open-source-project-building-connected-edge-kubernetes/"> Akri</a>, from Microsoft</li> <li><a href="https://www.contentful.com/blog/2020/10/20/open-source-kube-secret-syncer/"> kube-secret-syncer</a> from Contentful</li> <li><a href="https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/">Grafana Tempo</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/opentelemetry/tracing-specification-release-candidate-ga-p-eec434d220f2"> OpenTelemetry Tracing Spec RC</a> by Morgan McLean</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/public-preview-aws-distro-open-telemetry/"> AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-aws-load-balancer-controller/"> AWS Load Balancer Controller</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/10/20/introducing-nydus-dragonfly-container-image-service"> Nydus container image service</a></li> <li><a href="https://robin.io/press/robin-io-launches-free-for-life-full-featured-express-edition-of-robin-cloud-native-storage-for-kubernetes/"> Robin.io Express</a>, free for life</li> <li><a href="https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-business-kubernetes-service-edge-multi-cloud-deployment"> Verizon Business adds Kubernetes</a> which is <a href="https://rafay.co/the-kubernetes-current/verizon-partners-with-rafay-systems-to-power-cutting-edge-application-kubernetes-platform/"> powered by Rafay</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="links-from-the-interview">Links from the interview</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.netsertive.com/">Netsertive</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparks_the_Rescue">Sparks the Rescue</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warped_Tour">Vans Warped tour</a></li> <li><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/8389/8519255017_80a53a50d2_b.jpg">David on stage</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.munki.org/munki/">Munki</a> for Mac software deployment</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_purchase">A considered purchase</a></li> <li><a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/books/">Google’s SRE books</a></li> <li><a href="https://eksctl.io/">eksctl</a></li> <li><a href="https://velero.io/">Velero</a>, fka Heptio Ark</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/helm/helm/issues/6899">Fixing reuse-values in Helm</a></li> <li>Go listen to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Mulligan">Hot Mulligan</a> <ul> <li>Or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift">Taylor Swift</a>, totally up to you</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/SparksTheDave">David Pait</a> on Twitter</li> </ul>