The Kubelist Podcast

In episode 40 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie speak with open source pioneer Dave McAllister. Dave shares stories and lessons from his 40-year career in tech including working for DEC, NASA, Adobe, Red Hat, Splunk, and NGINX. Additionally, they discuss Linux’s rise to popularity in the early days of open source, SGI’s contribution to modern cinematic effects, predictions around AI, and the overlap of open source and LLMs.

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The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #40, The Open Source Secret Agent with Dave McAllister of NGINX

In this inaugural episode of The Kubelist Podcast, host Marc Campbell of Replicated speaks with Uma Mukkara of MayaData. They explore the tooling and best practices for adopting chaos engineering, as well as MayaData’s founding story and multi-project roadmap.

The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #1, Practicing Chaos with Uma Mukkara of MayaData

In episode 2 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Mukulika Kapas of Intuit. They discuss the Argo CNCF incubation project, getting started with GitOps, and managing clusters at scale.

The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #2, GitOps at Scale with Mukulika Kapas of Intuit

In episode 3 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell speaks with Ben Sigelman of LightStep. They discuss the inspiration and origin story behind OpenTelemetry, the challenges of observability, and the path from sandbox to incubation.

The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #3, OpenTelemetry with Ben Sigelman of LightStep

In episode 4 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc speaks with Sunil James of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. They discuss the SPIFFE and SPIRE projects, focusing on identity control for distributed systems.

The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #4, SPIFFE and SPIRE with Sunil James of HPE

In episode 5 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell is joined by Michael Bridgen of Weaveworks. They unpack Flux, the GitOps operator for Kubernetes, as well as GitOps adoption and progressive delivery.

The Kubelist Podcast - Ep. #5, Flux with Michael Bridgen of Weaveworks

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