What is configuration as data, how is different from infrastructure as code, and why can’t anything just be itself anymore? We posed these questions and more to long-time Kubernetes contributor Justin Santa Barbara at KubeCon EU, and this episode is the result. Justin created the kOps project and now leads the team at Google that makes Kubernetes easier to consume.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Cloud Native at Microsoft Build
- Azure Container Apps are GA
- AKS updates
Docker acquires Tilt
Broadcom acquires VMware
- FT coverage
- Customer reaction from The Register
Istio 1.14
GKE Cost Estimator
Goodbye to Katacoda
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Links from the interview

FathomDB
- Meteor acquires FathomDB for its development platform
- Sherlocking
OpenStack
kOps
- GitHub
Configuration management tools
Infrastructure as Code
JSON, YAML, Proto and INI
Helm
- values.yaml
Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM)
kustonize
kpt
Package management
Configuration as Data announcement blog
Porch
kpt functions
Backstage
Config Sync and Config Connector
Kubernetes component configuration
Cluster API
Justin Santa Barbara on Twitter

Configuration as Data, with Justin Santa Barbara

Kubernetes Podcast from Google