GKE 10 Year Anniversary, with Gari Singh

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In this episode, Gari Singh discusses the 10-year journey of GKE and its future vision.

GKE turned 10 in 2025! In this episode, we talk with GKE PM Gari Singh 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: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com X: @kubernetespod bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Knative's Graduation llm-d 0.3: Wider Well-Lit Paths for Scalable Inference vllm-project/semantic-router on github Announcing the Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC) Introducing Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter - Scaling and Visibility Links from the interview Kelsey Hightower's Kubernetes the Hard Way MiniKube Kind Docker Compose Docker Swarm GKE Autopilot Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Google Cloud TPUs Node Auto Provisioning (GKE) Jax (Machine Learning Framework) Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) Serverless on Google Cloud Grafana Prometheus Kubectl-ai Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA) Kubernetes v1.33: In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta In-place Vertical Scaling of Pods - Resize CPU and Memory Resources assigned to Containers GKE…

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Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

Guest: Gari Singh

Topics covered

• GKE anniversary
• Kubernetes evolution
• AI-driven operations
• container orchestration
• cloud technology

Keywords

• GKE
• Kubernetes
• AI-driven ops
• container orchestration
• cloud native

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Products: GKE, Knative, llm-d, vllm-project/semantic-router, Certified Meshery Contributor (CMC), Headlamp Plugin for Karpenter, GKE Autopilot, Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA), Google Cloud TPUs, Jax

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