Kubernetes 1.35: Timbernetes, with Drew Hagen
Kubernetes Podcast from Google
Release Date: 12/22/2025
Kubernetes 1.35: Timbernetes, with Drew Hagen
Kubernetes Podcast from Google
, the release lead for , discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: Links from the...
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Kubernetes AI Conformance, with Janet Kuo
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, Staff Software Engineer at Google, explains the new Kubernetes AI Conformance program. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: Intro News of the Week Links from the interview
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GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh
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GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM about GKE's journey from early container orchestration to AI-driven ops. Discover Autopilot, IPPR, and a bold vision for the future of Kubernetes. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com X: bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea
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Today we talk to Antonio Ojea. Antonio is a software engineer at Google and one of the core maintainers of Kubernetes. He is one of the Tech Lead of SIG Networking and Testing and a member of the Steering Committee. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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Kubernetes SIG Docs, With Shannon Kularathna
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is a technical writer working on the GKE docs. He contributes regularly to the upstream Kubernetes documentation. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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Kubernetes 1.34 Of Wind & Will, With Vyom Yadav
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is a software engineer in the security team at Canonical and a member of the Kubernetes Security Response Committee. We talked about the new Release theme and what major updates, deprecations and removals to expect in this version. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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LLM-D, with Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw
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Guests are Clayton Coleman and Rob Shaw. Clayton is a Core contributor to Kubernetes, the containerized cluster manager, and founding architect for OpenShift, the open source platform as a service. Clayton helped launch the shift to cloud native applications and the platforms that enable them. At Google my mission is to make Kubernetes and GKE the best place to run workloads, especially accelerated AI/ML workloads, and especially especially very large model inference at scale with the inference gateway and llm-d. Rob Shaw is an Engineering Director at Redhat and is a contributor to the vLLM...
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Platform Engineering, with Ben Good
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This episode is a crossover with our friends at the . Kaslin joined and to talk about Kubernetes for Platform Engineering. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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Platform Engineering, GitOps and AI with Pierre-Gilles Mialon and Glen Yu
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Guests are and . Pierre-Gilles and Glen are Google Developer Experts. We had an opportunity to catch up with them at Next 2025 and we spoke about Platform Engineering, GitOps, Policy as code and AI. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: News of the week Links from the interview
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HPC Workload Scheduling, with Ricardo Rocha
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leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training for several years. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), currently chairs the End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB), as well as leading the Research User Group (RUG). Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: - mail: - twitter: - bluesky: ...
info_outlineDrew Hagen, the release lead for Kubernetes 1.35, discusses the theme of the release, Timbernetes, which symbolizes resilience and diversity in the Kubernetes community. He shares insights from his experience as a release lead, highlights key features and enhancements in the new version, and addresses the importance of coordination in release management. Drew also touches on the deprecations in the release and the future of Kubernetes, including its applications in edge computing.
Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:
- web: kubernetespodcast.com
- mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com
- twitter: @kubernetespod
- bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com
Links from the interview