If you’re running on-prem, and you say set up a Service type=LoadBalancer, what happens? Does your cluster call your NOC and have them order you a Juniper router? MetalLB is a popular answer to that question. Your hosts discuss load balancing with MetalLB’s author, Google Cloud SRE David Anderson.

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News of the week

Kubernetes 1.13 released
- Critical vulnerability in all Kubernetes versions
Kubernetes is the most popular skill in tech, according to Indeed’s Hiring Lab
Envoy graduates to a full CNCF project
AWS re:Invent
- Firecracker MicroVM
  - Integration with containerd
  - Instructions for running on GCE with nested virtualisation
- AWS App Mesh
- In-place EKS upgrades! Windows support! (Citation needed)
Istio on GKE released
Agones 0.6.0 released
- Episode 26 with Mark Mandel and Cyril Tovena

Links from the interview

MetalLB
- BGP and OSPF
- Katran, a load balancer from Facebook
David Anderson on Twitter

MetalLB, with David Anderson

Kubernetes Podcast from Google