Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee.

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• GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters

• KCD H1 2026

• Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project

• Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn

• Antonio Ojea on X

• Virtual Networks

• Kubernetes Networking

• Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• Kubernetes Gateway API

• Calico

• Cilium

• Multi-Service CIDR

• DRANet

Shannon Kularathna is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation.

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• Reddit Post
• KubeCon NA
• KubeCon NA Colo events
• Jeager v2
• Kubernetes 1.34 on GKE

• Shannon Kularathna
• Kubernetes SIG Docs
• Kubernetes Documentation
• Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
• Kubernetes Code of Conduct
• SIG Contributor Experience
• Kubernetes Blog
• Join the Kubernetes Slack
• Kubernetes New Contributor Orientation Events
• SIG Docs Meetings
• Kubernetes/website GitHub Repository
• Good First Issues for kubernetes/website
• Help Wanted Issues for kubernetes/website

Vyom Yadav is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version.

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• GKE 10 years Hackathon

• Golden Kubestronauts 100 members

• Open Policy Agent (OPA) joined Apple

• DocumentDB joined the Linux Foundation

• Solo.io donated the agentgateway to the Linux Foundation

• Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose

• Vyom Yadav

• Kubernetes 1.34 sneak peak

Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM project.

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• Kubernetes 1.34 is expected to release end of August

• Kubecrash.io: A platform Eng conference with a purpose

• CNCF top 30 project of 2025

• LLM-D

• KubeCon EU 25 Keynote: LLM-Aware Load Balancing in Kubernetes

• WG Serving

• vLLM

• Disaggregated Prefilling

• LWS: LeaderWorkerSet

This episode is a crossover with our friends at the SRE Prodcast. Kaslin joined Ben Good and Steve McGhee to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering.

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Kubernetes 1.34 Sneak Peak

Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)

Amazon EKS enables ultra scale AI/ML workloads with support for 100K nodes per cluster

CNCF Cloud Native Glossary

Backstage

DORA Metrics

Guests are Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu. Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI.

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• Docker Desktop version 4.43 release

• Docker Compose support in Google Cloud Run

• KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Japan in 2026

• Google Developer Experts

• Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-1

• Kubernetes Resource Model Blog Part-2

• KRO on the podcast

• Kyverno

• Nomad

• FluxCD

Ricardo Rocha leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG).

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• Kubernetes Blog: Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments

• Gemini CLI on GitHub

• Cloud Native Glossary — The Vietnamese Version is Live!

• CNCF Blog: Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let’s Build What’s Next

• • OpenStack Foundation

  • OpenInfra Foundation

• Ricardo Rocha on LinkedIn

• CERN

• Infiniband

• Kubernetes Jobs

• HTCondor

• Slurm Workload Manager

• Kueue

• Volcano

• Kube-batch (archived)

• Kubefed (archived)

• Yunikorn (Unicorn)

• KubeAdmiral (formerly Kubefed v2)

• CNCF End User Awards - CERN

• Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

• CNCF TAG & WG Restructure (Reboot)

• Interlink

• Slinky (Slurm-Kubernetes integration)

• XPK: a container-native platform for HPC

• Gateway API

• KubeRay