De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast

Bij de AIVD kom je niet zomaar binnen. Je legt je telefoon en je spullen weg, je gaat door de security check en de poortjes, en pas daarna ga je aan het werk. De netwerken daarachter zijn net zo streng afgesloten: de meeste hebben geen internet, ze leven helemaal los van elkaar, en data kan er maar één kant op. In deze aflevering van De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast spreken Ronald Kers en Jan Stomphorst met Wouter en Nick, die bij de AIVD in het platformteam werken. Ze vertellen hoe updates ...

Andrew "Andy" Block writes books and reviews pull requests at thirty thousand feet over the Pacific, because as he says, he can sleep when he's dead. Between Red Hat's services organization and four talks at KubeCon Amsterdam, he sat down with Ronald Kers and Jan Stomphorst to talk about the first major Helm release in almost five years. Helm 4 is a story about restraint. Helm has become load bearing for an enormous number of enterprises, and a strict versioning policy left technical debt wi...

In deze aflevering gaan Ronald en Jan in gesprek met Eric de Witte, Cloud Native Solutions Architect bij Nutanix, over hoe moderne Kubernetes-platformen worden uitgerold en beheerd over virtualisatielagen, bare metal en de cloud heen. Eric heeft een lange geschiedenis die teruggaat tot de vroege vCenter-tijd, via de opkomst van container orchestration (Mesos, Docker Swarm) tot het huidige Cluster API-gedreven platform bij Nutanix. Het gesprek behandelt hoe Cluster API de onderliggende infrast...

In this episode, recorded live at KubeCon, Ronald and Jan talk with Jannis Relakis and Michael Seiwald-McCarty, both senior platform engineers at Celonis. Celonis manages over 150 Kubernetes clusters across GKE, AKS, and EKS, but it wasn't always that clean. They started with six different Kubernetes flavors, including Gardener, K-Ops, and OpenShift (both Rosa and ARO), spread across multiple cloud providers. In their KubeCon talk "No Shame in Just Paying," they shared how they tackled this c...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan sit down with Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DB tune, at KubeCon. Luigi brings a rare mix of academic depth (PhD in computer science, postdocs at Imperial College London and Stanford, professor at Lund University) and startup pragmatism. The conversation digs into why database tuning is fundamentally a combinatorial optimization problem that humans aren't wired to solve well, and why AI is uniquely suited for it. DB tune focuses entirely on Postgres and deplo...

In this episode, hosts Ronald and Jan are joined at KubeCon by two guests from Red Hat: Brian Stevens, AI CTO and one of the original architects behind the creation of Kubernetes and the CNCF, and Rob Shaw, co-lead of the vLLM project and maintainer of LMD. Brian shares the remarkable backstory of how Kubernetes came to be open source, including how Red Hat negotiated a single committer seat before agreeing to be a launch partner, and how he later pushed Google to contribute Kubernetes to th...

In Episode 135 of the Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald Kers and Jan Stomphorst sit down with Mohamed Nasser, CEO of VEXXHOST and OpenInfra Foundation board member, together with Thierry Carrez, General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation and Linux Foundation Europe. The conversation explores the growing relevance of OpenStack in a world increasingly focused on digital sovereignty, private cloud, AI workloads, and secure infrastructure. The episode dives into how the industry shifted from pri...

In episode 134, Ronald and Jan reconnect with Carl Moberg from Avassa, live from KubeCon Amsterdam, nearly two years after their first spontaneous conversation about edge computing. Since that first meeting, the edge landscape has evolved rapidly. What was once a niche topic has now become a serious focus area for industries ranging from retail and manufacturing to telecom and AI-driven infrastructure. Carl shares how organizations are increasingly moving workloads closer to where data is cre...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Neil Cresswell, CEO, CTO, and co-founder of Portainer. Neil shares how Portainer started as a simple Docker UI and evolved into a platform for managing Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments at scale. A key topic in this episode is Kube Solo, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that can run on roughly 200 MB of RAM. The goal is to make Kubernetes usable in environments where traditional clusters are too heavy, such as IoT, edge, and far edge us...

In this episode, Ronald and Jan are joined by Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, to discuss the upcoming Kubernetes 1.36 release and the broader evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Nigel shares his journey from help desk and cybersecurity roles into open source, eventually working closely with Kubernetes through projects like Calico and Falco within the CNCF ecosystem. The conversation centers around Kubernetes 1.36, which marks a shift from foundational featur...