SE Radio 590: Andy Suderman on Standing Up Kubernetes

Andy Suderman, CTO of Fairwinds, joins host
Robert Blumen to talk about standing up a kubernetes cluster.
Their discussion covers build-your-own versus managed clusters
provided by cloud services, and how to determine the number of
kubernetes clusters an organization needs. Andy describes best
practices for automating cluster provisioning, and offers
recommendations about customizations and opinionation of cloud
service providers, choice of container registry, and whether you
should run complementary services such as CI and monitoring on
the same cluster. The episode also examines the day 0/day 1/day 2
lifecycle, cluster auto-scaling at the cloud service level,
integrating stateful services and other cloud services into your
cluster, and kubernetes secrets and alternatives. Finally, they
consider the container-network interface (CNI), ingress and load
balancers, and provisioning external DNS and TLS certificates for
cluster services.