Show Notes
Bret and Nirmal reunite for their traditional annual Holiday Special episode of breaking down the most significant developments in cloud native from 2024 and sharing predictions for 2025.
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We touch on infrastructure evolution, exploring Kubernetes fleet management challenges and emerging solutions for simplified tool stacks, we cover essential cloud native trends of 2024, infrastructure automation breakthroughs, notable technical innovations, projects that aspire to be part of CNCF as well as predictions for cloud native in 2025.There's also a video version of this show on YouTube. ★Topics★ Cloud Native End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Adam Jacob's Talk: Reimagining OSS Licensing and Commercialization with Fair Source kubevirt Keda Cloud Native Reference Architectures Karpenter eBPF ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb_vD3XZYOA ebpf documentary) (Ebpf summit) GitHub Copilot, now Free Kubernetes transitioning into enterprise maturity (https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/10-years-kubernetes-innovation) FinOps matters Read the tea leaves sandbox issues Creators & Guests
Cristi Cotovan - Editor
Beth Fisher - Producer
Bret Fisher - Host
Nirmal Mehta - Host
(00:00) - Intro
(02:55) - Structure of the Show
(03:21) - Kubernetes is 10 and CNCF Maturity
(04:35) - What is a CNCF Graduated Project?
(07:31) - IDPs
(08:51) - Legacy Projects Aspiring for CNCF
(18:40) - Favorite Tools of 2024
(18:55) - Argo's Increasing Use
(23:15) - GitHub Copilot
(25:53) - KubeVirt
(32:01) - Event-Driven Autoscaling with KEDA
(33:45) - Cloud Native Reference Architectures
(35:56) - Karpenter Workshop Highlights from KubeCon
(37:08) - Kubernetes Stacks and AI Workloads
(39:30) - Predictions for Kubernetes in 2025
(39:36) - Kubernetes "LAMP" Stack
(40:31) - AI in 2025
(44:33) - Efficiency, Energy and Environmental Impact
(46:55) - Fleet and Multi-Cluster Management
(51:44) - Optimizing Inference
(53:28) - Edge Hybrid
(53:57) - Container-Optimized Linux Distros
(59:54) - Open Source Licensing and Business Models
(01:02:21) - Purely Open Source Kubernetes Stack
(01:03:11) - The CNCF Sandbox
(01:09:32) - Final Thoughts
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