Kubernetes Failure Stories, with Henning Jacobs

You learn so much more from failure than success. Henning Jacobs, head of Developer Productivity at Zalando, joins Adam and Craig to share his own stories of failure, and talk about what he has learned by reading stories from others.

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Chatter of the week

• A Normal Lost Phone
• Neil and Liam Finn

News of the week

• CoreDNS graduates
• Intel introduces Nauta; enterprise Kubeflow
  • Interview with David Aronchick in Episode 2
• Ian Lewis’s blog posts on container runtimes
• Istio blog intro by Megan O’Keefe
  • Interview with Dan Ciruli and Jasmine Jaksic in Episode 15
• Kubinception: Using Kubernetes to run Kubernetes at OVH
  • Why OVH Managed Kubernetes
  • Giant Swarm and SAP
• GKE Jenkins Plugin and source code
• Deploying to Kubernetes from GitHub Actions
  • Mortar; the manifest shooter for Kubernetes
• It’s a good time to be working in Kubernetes

Links from the interview

• Kubernetes Failure Stories blog post
  • GitHub repo
  • Hacker News post
• Zalando
• A Million Ways to Crash Your Cluster
  • Original version of the talk from the Dusseldorf meetup
• Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
• Nordstrom talk at KubeCon NA 2017
• Serverless Failure Stories
• Startup scripts used to just kill the Docker daemon
• 90 days of EKS in production: configuration options you need to set
• CPU throttling
• Facebook oomd
• John Wilkes: only make new mistakes
• Henning Jacobs on Twitter