Ship It Conversations: Justin Garrison of Sidero Labs on Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, AI, Golden Paths, and Knowing What to Say No To
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In this episode, Justin Garrison discusses Kubernetes, platform engineering, and the importance of knowing what to say no to in tech.
This is a guest conversation episode of Ship It Weekly , separate from the weekly news recaps. In this Ship It Conversations episode, I talk with Justin Garrison of Sidero Labs about Kubernetes, platform engineering, bare metal, AI, golden paths, and why knowing what to say no to may be one of the most important skills a platform team can develop. Justin is Field CTO at Sidero Labs, the company behind Talos Linux, and co-host of Fork Around and Find Out. We start with the evolution of Kubernetes and how managed services like EKS and GKE made Kubernetes easier to consume while also pulling teams deeper into proprietary cloud ecosystems. Justin explains why on-prem and bare metal are getting renewed attention, especially as teams look at cloud costs, data sovereignty, and the operational overhead that comes with constantly optimizing cloud environments. We also get into where Kubernetes helps and where it becomes self-inflicted pain. Justin talks about abstraction, cognitive load, and why teams tend to use familiar tools for problems they were never really designed to solve. A big part of the conversation is platform engineering and golden paths. Justin argues that every…
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