Gleaming the KubeCon (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they’re working on at Sidero Labs.

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Featuring:

• Solomon Hykes – GitHub, X
• Tammer Saleh – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• James McShane – GitHub, X
• Steve Francis – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Spencer Smith – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• SOTL 2023
• dagger.io
• SuperOrbital
• Talos Linux

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Neon (00:01:35)

https://neon.tech

3. Start the show! (00:06:57)

4. Gerhard almost didn't make it (00:07:59)

5. Jerod didn't want to make it (00:09:11)

6. Adam made it to the wrong airport (00:10:12)

7. Dagger's "top secret" demo (00:11:02)

8. Our kind of demos (00:14:34)

9. Describing the expo hall vibe (00:15:44)

10. Does Dagger replace CI? (00:18:04)

11. What's been holding dev back (00:21:36)

12. Who was Dagger built for? (00:24:44)

13. Jerod dreams of Dagger (00:32:03)

14. Solomon's Christmas (00:39:32)

15. Sponsor: .Tech Domains (00:42:00)

https://startups.tech/changelog

16. Why Tammer comes to KubeCon (00:46:54)

17. Why James comes to KubeCon (00:48:20)

18. Conference talk curators wanted (00:50:30)

19. Setting up the big question (00:53:29)

20. NixOS has a fatal flaw (00:56:41)

21. Jerod runs out of questions (01:02:42)

22. Check out OrbStack (01:03:09)

23. The remote developer (01:04:44)

24. Workshop infrastructure (01:06:05)

25. Teaching happy path vs reality (01:09:49)

26. Lessons learned from workshops (01:14:09)

27. The curation process (01:19:53)

28. The innovation point scale (01:20:57)

29. Key takeaways (01:23:11)

30. Sponsor: Traceroute (01:24:46)

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31. Welcoming Steve & Spencer (01:25:51)

32. Best of KubeCon 2023 (01:26:17)

33. How do controllers work? (01:27:16)

34. KubeSpan (01:29:17)

35. Clustering via KubeSpan (01:30:37)

36. 2023 Highlights (01:32:27)

37. KubePrism (01:35:29)

38. The little things (01:38:17)

39. The Talos community (01:43:12)

40. Users' favorite feature (01:44:23)

41. Gerhard's first step (01:45:44)

42. Most requested feature (01:47:14)

43. 2nd most requested feature (01:48:27)

44. Better search (01:50:11)

45. Image factory (01:51:21)

46. Cool use cases (01:55:44)

47. Node placement (01:58:58)

48. Key takeaways (02:00:25)

49. It's that time again - SOTL (02:02:37)