De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast

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  #145 Why Kubernetes Isn't Ready for AI Agents (Yet) 29.09.2026 48мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Idit Levine, founder and CEO of Solo.io. Idit shares how a single job interview shaped her career and how she picked Kubernetes as the winner when Docker Swarm and Mesos were still in the race. She is refreshingly honest about service mesh, including where Istio went wrong and why she believes Ambient mode finally gets it right. Then the conversation turns to AI: why agents are stateful workloads that don't fit the classic Kubernetes model, why Solo....
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  #144 Kubernetes Doesn't Build Your Network 22.09.2026 40мин

  We sit down with Simone Rodigari, software engineer in Azure Core Container Networking and one of the maintainers of Retina, the eBPF-based observability project. Simone had just delivered his session on Kubernetes networking, and we asked him to give our listeners the same mental model, the one you need when something breaks and you have no idea where to start tracing. We start at the ground rules: every pod gets an IP, every pod can reach every other pod. That's the expectation Kubernetes s...
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  #143 Kubernetes bij de AIVD: achter de poortjes 15.09.2026 42мин

  Bij de AIVD kom je niet zomaar binnen. Je legt je telefoon en je spullen weg, je gaat door de security check en de poortjes, en pas daarna ga je aan het werk. De netwerken daarachter zijn net zo streng afgesloten: de meeste hebben geen internet, ze leven helemaal los van elkaar, en data kan er maar één kant op. In deze aflevering van De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast spreken Ronald Kers en Jan Stomphorst met Wouter en Nick, die bij de AIVD in het platformteam werken. Ze vertellen hoe updates ...
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  #142 Kubernetes 1.37 Garhwal 04.09.2026 28мин

  Kubernetes 1.37 verscheen eind augustus onder de naam Garhwal, genoemd naar de Noord-Indiase regio waar de release lead zelf vandaan komt. Op papier een rustige release: 67 enhancements, waarvan zestien naar Stable, drieëntwintig naar Beta en zevenentwintig nieuw in Alpha. Jan constateert dat Kubernetes al een tijd steeds stabieler wordt en dat breaking changes zeldzamer worden. Goed nieuws, al maakt het de zoektocht naar een spannend verhaal voor een release-aflevering er niet makkelijker op...
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  #141 Helm 4 - Plugins, OCI and Why Nothing Broke 21.08.2026 38мин

  Andrew "Andy" Block writes books and reviews pull requests at thirty thousand feet over the Pacific, because as he says, he can sleep when he's dead. Between Red Hat's services organization and four talks at KubeCon Amsterdam, he sat down with Ronald Kers and Jan Stomphorst to talk about the first major Helm release in almost five years. Helm 4 is a story about restraint. Helm has become load bearing for an enormous number of enterprises, and a strict versioning policy left technical debt wi...
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  #140 Why Your VPN Is Lying to You About Security 04.08.2026 28мин

  Ronald and Jan talk with Peter O'Neill and Boris Kurktchiev from Teleport about their talk "Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Why Reverse Proxies Beat VPNs." Both guests bring deep networking and security backgrounds, from early desktop support and Slackware days to leading Teleport's solutions engineering and CNCF community work. The core argument: traditional VPNs grant broad network access once a user authenticates, creating large lateral movement risk with little to no granular control or auditi...
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  #139 Waarom een Kubernetes-cluster zichzelf niet moet beheren 21.07.2026 51мин

  In deze aflevering gaan Ronald en Jan in gesprek met Eric de Witte, Cloud Native Solutions Architect bij Nutanix, over hoe moderne Kubernetes-platformen worden uitgerold en beheerd over virtualisatielagen, bare metal en de cloud heen. Eric heeft een lange geschiedenis die teruggaat tot de vroege vCenter-tijd, via de opkomst van container orchestration (Mesos, Docker Swarm) tot het huidige Cluster API-gedreven platform bij Nutanix. Het gesprek behandelt hoe Cluster API de onderliggende infrast...
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  #138 We Built Our Own Wormhole to Migrate 150 Kubernetes Clusters 07.07.2026 38мин

  In this episode, recorded live at KubeCon, Ronald and Jan talk with Jannis Relakis and Michael Seiwald-McCarty, both senior platform engineers at Celonis. Celonis manages over 150 Kubernetes clusters across GKE, AKS, and EKS, but it wasn't always that clean. They started with six different Kubernetes flavors, including Gardener, K-Ops, and OpenShift (both Rosa and ARO), spread across multiple cloud providers. In their KubeCon talk "No Shame in Just Paying," they shared how they tackled this c...
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  #137 The hidden performance tax you're paying on every cloud deployment 23.06.2026 42мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan sit down with Luigi Nardi, founder and CEO of DB tune, at KubeCon. Luigi brings a rare mix of academic depth (PhD in computer science, postdocs at Imperial College London and Stanford, professor at Lund University) and startup pragmatism. The conversation digs into why database tuning is fundamentally a combinatorial optimization problem that humans aren't wired to solve well, and why AI is uniquely suited for it. DB tune focuses entirely on Postgres and deplo...
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  #136: vLLM, LMD, and the Quest to Build the Linux of AI Inference 09.06.2026 32мин

  In this episode, hosts Ronald and Jan are joined at KubeCon by two guests from Red Hat: Brian Stevens, AI CTO and one of the original architects behind the creation of Kubernetes and the CNCF, and Rob Shaw, co-lead of the vLLM project and maintainer of LMD. Brian shares the remarkable backstory of how Kubernetes came to be open source, including how Red Hat negotiated a single committer seat before agreeing to be a launch partner, and how he later pushed Google to contribute Kubernetes to th...
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  #135 The Return of OpenStack: Kubernetes & Sovereign Infrastructure 26.05.2026 38мин

  In Episode 135 of the Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald Kers and Jan Stomphorst sit down with Mohamed Nasser, CEO of VEXXHOST and OpenInfra Foundation board member, together with Thierry Carrez, General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation and Linux Foundation Europe. The conversation explores the growing relevance of OpenStack in a world increasingly focused on digital sovereignty, private cloud, AI workloads, and secure infrastructure. The episode dives into how the industry shifted from pri...
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  #134 Kubernetes at the Edge: Hype, Reality and Trade-offs 12.05.2026 1ч 1мин

  In episode 134, Ronald and Jan reconnect with Carl Moberg from Avassa, live from KubeCon Amsterdam, nearly two years after their first spontaneous conversation about edge computing. Since that first meeting, the edge landscape has evolved rapidly. What was once a niche topic has now become a serious focus area for industries ranging from retail and manufacturing to telecom and AI-driven infrastructure. Carl shares how organizations are increasingly moving workloads closer to where data is cre...
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  #133 Kubernetes everywhere: how far can it really go? 05.05.2026 30мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Neil Cresswell, CEO, CTO, and co-founder of Portainer. Neil shares how Portainer started as a simple Docker UI and evolved into a platform for managing Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments at scale. A key topic in this episode is Kube Solo, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that can run on roughly 200 MB of RAM. The goal is to make Kubernetes usable in environments where traditional clusters are too heavy, such as IoT, edge, and far edge us...
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  #132 From CPU to GPU: The New Reality of Kubernetes 1.36 21.04.2026 40мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan are joined by Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, to discuss the upcoming Kubernetes 1.36 release and the broader evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem. Nigel shares his journey from help desk and cybersecurity roles into open source, eventually working closely with Kubernetes through projects like Calico and Falco within the CNCF ecosystem. The conversation centers around Kubernetes 1.36, which marks a shift from foundational featur...
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  #131 Securing the Software Supply Chain in Kubernetes 31.03.2026 35мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Zahra Dehghanpour (platform engineer at bol.com) and Feike Wierda (Senior DevOps Engineer @Bol. via HCS Company) about software supply chain security in Kubernetes environments. Zahra shares her journey from development to platform engineering, driven by the constant challenges and unpredictability of working with infrastructure. Her earlier experience working in Iran, where infrastructure had to be built and maintained under constraints, shaped her ...
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  #130 What If You Never Had to Patch CVEs Again? 17.03.2026 37мин

  In this episode, Ronald and Jan are joined by Hannah Hawken, partner sales at Chainguard, who brings a fresh perspective on something every Kubernetes team struggles with: security. What starts as a conversation about career paths quickly turns into a deeper discussion about how we’ve been approaching security all wrong for years. Coming from a background in development and later moving into security, she reflects on what it feels like to build software without truly understanding the ...
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  #129 AI, Legacy en de Illusie van Modernisering 24.02.2026 41мин

  In aflevering 129 spreken Ronald en Jan met Jan Buurman van HCS Company iemand die al sinds zijn 17e in de IT zit en de evolutie van mainframes tot Kubernetes van dichtbij heeft meegemaakt Jan begon als COBOL-programmeur en groeide door richting organisatie, processen en platformstrategie Vanuit die brede ervaring kijkt hij anders naar Kubernetes dan veel engineers: niet als eindoplossing, maar als onderdeel van een groter geheel. Een van de scherpste inzichten uit het gesprek: ...
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  #128 Why “Just Give Me Admin” Is the Most Dangerous Request in IT 10.02.2026 29мин

  In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan are joined by Maurice Côté, VP of Products at Devolutions, to talk about one of the most misunderstood topics in modern IT security: Privileged Access Management (PAM). Too often, PAM is treated as a compliance checkbox. Something you buy because an auditor, insurer, or regulation tells you to. Maurice explains why that mindset is dangerous — and why access itself has become one of the biggest attack surfaces in today’s infrastr...
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  #127 From Silicon Valley to Palestine: Scaling Software Globally 27.01.2026 37мин

  In this episode of The Dutch Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan talk with Yahya Al-Salqan, CEO and co-founder of Jaffa.Net Software, about building and scaling global software companies far beyond the traditional tech hubs. Yahya shares his personal journey from academia and Silicon Valley, where he worked at Sun Microsystems, back to Palestine to found Jaffa.Net. What started as a mission-driven decision to contribute to his community has grown into a company with over 26 years of experienc...
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  #126 From 135 ms to 6 ms: The Multi-Cloud Networking Mistake Everyone Makes 13.01.2026 25мин

  In episode 126 of De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast, Ronald and Jan sit down with Chris Noon, Technical Solution Director at Alkira, to talk about one of the most underestimated challenges in cloud-native environments: networking. Chris shares his journey from traditional telco and enterprise networking, through VMware NSX, to modern cloud and Kubernetes platforms. The conversation dives deep into why networking often becomes more complex—not less—once organizations adopt multi-cloud, hybrid ...