GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Antonio Ojea discussing his role in Kubernetes and recent developments in GKE and SIG Networking.

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: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week GKE Autopilot Mode inside Standard clusters KCD H1 2026 Metal Kubed joined the CNCF as an incubating project Links from the interview Antonio Ojea on LinkedIn Antonio Ojea on X Virtual Networks Kubernetes Networking Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Kubernetes Gateway API Calico Cilium Multi-Service CIDR DRANet

People in this episode

Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

Guest: Antonio Ojea

Topics covered

• Kubernetes
• GKE
• Networking
• Software Engineering
• Cloud Native
• CNCF

Keywords

• Kubernetes
• GKE
• SIG Networking
• Antonio Ojea
• Cloud Native
• CNCF
• Networking

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, SIG Networking, CNCF

Products: GKE Autopilot Mode, Kubernetes, Calico, Cilium, Kubernetes Gateway API, Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)

Places: Multi-Service CIDR, DRANet

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