Coming to grips with Kubernetes in 2020: podcasts
It has become clear to me that it is time to care about Kubernetes more. I'm sure many people have cared for ages, but the things I want to build at the moment are starting to be more container based now that I am thinking more at the application layer than the cloud infrastructure layer. So how to do that? I thought I'd write down some notes on what has worked (or not) for me, in the hope it will help others. In this post, podcasts. I thought podcasts would be an interesting way to get started with some nice overviews. This is especially true because I'm already a pretty heavy podcast user, so it was easy to slot into my existing routine. Unfortunately this hasn't really worked out. I started with the podctl podcast, but they only ever talk about Red Hat stuff. It is very rare for a guest to not be a Red Hat employee for example. The presenters of this podcast seem to also really dislike OpenStack for reasons they never explain, which is annoying. Then I figured maybe the Google Kubernetes podcast would be better, but it often lacks the depth I am interested in. I…