Kubernetes Podcast

Kubernetes solved a real problem and handed everyone a new set of them. The episodes here are less about kubectl trivia and more about living with clusters in production: how pods actually get scheduled and evicted, why your rollouts stall, and where the line sits between a healthy abstraction and a leaky one that pages you at 3am. Managed control planes like EKS and GKE moved the pain around rather than removing it, and we talk about where it landed.

We dig into the day-two reality that the getting-started guides skip, from Helm charts that drift to autoscaling that fights itself to the eternal question of how much cluster complexity a team should own. If you're operating Kubernetes rather than just demoing it, these conversations are about keeping it boring, debuggable, and cheaper than it wants to be.

Episodes on Kubernetes

Episode 44Jun 5, 2026⏱️ 20:27Kiro CLI Approval Bypass, Amazon Braket Pickle Risk, AWS Org Logging, KEDA Upgrades, and Automation’s Hidden BoundariesEpisode: Kiro CLI Approval Bypass, Amazon Braket Pickle Risk, AWS Org Logging, KEDA Upgrades, and Automation’s Hidden Boundaries

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about automation’s hidden boundaries. Brian covers Kiro CLI CVE-2026-9255, where piped stdin could act like user approval, Amazon Braket SDK CVE-2026-9291…

Episode 39May 8, 2026⏱️ 21:57Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy FailEpisode: Cursor Deletes PocketOS Prod DB, .de DNSSEC Outage, Bluesky Postmortem, Argo CD, and Copy Fail

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about modern reliability getting squeezed from both directions. Old-school failures still hit hard, like broken DNSSEC, kernel privilege escalation bugs, and…

Episode 38May 4, 2026⏱️ 31:54Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform KeynoteEpisode: Ship It Conversations: Gareth Kersey on IaCConf 2026, AI, and Corey Quinn’s Terraform Keynote

This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly, separate from the weekly news recaps.This episode is not sponsored. I wanted to cover IaCConf because the theme…

Episode 36Apr 23, 2026⏱️ 20:24Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human IdentitiesEpisode: Kubernetes 1.36, Gateway API v1.5, AWS Copilot End of Support, and Cloudflare Non-Human Identities

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about platforms getting sharper about defaults, ownership, and the old paths they are no longer willing to quietly carry forever. Brian…

Episode 34Apr 17, 2026⏱️ 15:00AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry ConfigEpisode: AWS Interconnect GA, Cloudflare Mesh, GitLab 19, EKS Auto Mode, and OpenTelemetry Config

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about networking, ingress, and private access moving further up into the platform layer. Brian covers AWS Interconnect going generally available, Cloudflare…

Episode 32Apr 10, 2026⏱️ 15:04Amazon S3 Files, Malicious npm Plugins, Trivy Fallout, and Kubernetes’ Gateway ShiftEpisode: Amazon S3 Files, Malicious npm Plugins, Trivy Fallout, and Kubernetes’ Gateway Shift

This episode of Ship It Weekly is about the interface layer becoming the story. Brian covers Amazon S3 Files and why it feels more like a managed filesystem…

Episode 27Mar 20, 2026⏱️ 14:56McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on KubernetesEpisode: McKinsey AI Flaw, Kafka Goes Diskless, Google Buys Wiz, AWS Copilot Ends, and AI Gateway on Kubernetes

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at what happens when new interfaces create old responsibilities.McKinsey patched a vulnerability in its internal AI tool Lilli, Kafka contributors…

Episode 12Jan 9, 2026⏱️ 16:18n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix TemporalEpisode: n8n Critical CVE (CVE-2026-21858), AWS GPU Capacity Blocks Price Hike, Netflix Temporal

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian’s theme is basically: the “automation layer” is not a side tool anymore. It’s part of your perimeter, part of your reliability…

Episode 8Dec 26, 2025⏱️ 15:39Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin AccessEpisode: Cloudflare’s Workers Scheduler, AWS DBs on Vercel, and JIT Admin Access

This week on Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at real platform engineering in the wild.We start with Cloudflare’s write-up on building an internal maintenance scheduler on Workers. It’s…

Episode 7Dec 21, 2025⏱️ 30:38Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)Episode: Ship It Conversations: The WHY Behind DevOps, Upskilling, and Agentic AI (with Maz Islam)

This is a Ship It Weekly conversation episode. The weekly news recaps are still weekly. These interviews drop in between when I find someone worth talking to and…

Episode 5Dec 12, 2025⏱️ 16:14IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on AuroraEpisode: IBM Buys Confluent, React2Shell, and Netflix on Aurora

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian powers through a cold and digs into a very “infra grown-up” week in DevOps.First up, IBM is buying Confluent for…

Episode 4Dec 4, 2025⏱️ 22:00AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing StagingEpisode: AWS re:Invent for Platform Teams, GKE at 130k Nodes, and Killing Staging

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian looks at re:Invent through a platform/SRE lens and pulls out the updates that actually change how you design and run…

Episode 3Nov 26, 2025⏱️ 16:40Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub GuardrailsEpisode: Kubernetes Config Reality Check, EKS Control Planes, and GitHub Guardrails

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into what’s new for people actually running infra: Kubernetes config, EKS control planes and networking, and GitHub’s latest CI/CD…

Episode 2Nov 21, 2025⏱️ 15:53Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SREEpisode: Kubernetes Shake-ups, Platform Reality, and AI-Native SRE

In this episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian digs into 3 big themes for anyone running Kubernetes or building internal platforms.First, Kubernetes is officially retiring Ingress NGINX and…

Episode 1Nov 20, 2025⏱️ 12:54Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub OutagesEpisode: Special: When the Cloud Has a Bad Day: Cloudflare, AWS us-east-1 & GitHub Outages

In this special kickoff episode of Ship It Weekly, Brian walks through three major outages from the last few weeks and what they actually mean for DevOps, SRE,…

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