Daniel Smith is co-Chair and co-TL of SIG API Machinery, as well as TL of the corresponding Google team. Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and is one of the top overall contributors to the codebase. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss CRDs and extensibility.
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Chatter of the week

Old Man’s Journey
Rocketman

Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding


Aladdin (2019)
Aladdin (1992)

News of the week

Kubevirt joins the CNCF
KubeCon San Diego Contributor Summit
ServiceMeshCon 2019 schedule announced
GKE Intranode Visibility
#KUBE100; hosted k3s from Civo

k8s vs k3s by Andy Jeffries


Docker: Designing your first application on Kubernetes
Docker raising funds
IBM launches Apache CouchDB operator
90% of all PaaS and SaaS on IBM Cloud is on Kubernetes
Kubecost: Requests and Limits by Webb Brown
Kubeadvisor 1.0 from Magalix
Kubernetes Liveness Probes are Dangerous! by Henning Jacobs

Links from the interview

DevStats says Daniel is number 2 or number 3 contributor to Kubernetes, in either case just behind Tim Hockin from Episode 41

Either way, someone is wrong on the Internet!


Carina star constellation and having to rename it from that
The Kubernetes API
API Machinery
First proposal for API plugins - issue 991!
Third party resources (deprecated in 1.7)
Operator packaging
Custom Resources
Moving TPRs to CRDs by Nikhita Raghunath
API Aggregator
Extension via webhooks
1.15 release blog talks about CRD extensibility
Daniel’s KubeCon talks:

Life of an API Request (slides)
The hand-drawn trilogy:

Kubernetes-Style APIs of the Future (slides)
A Vision For API Machinery: Coming to Terms with the Platform We Built (slides)
The Kubernetes Control Plane for Busy People Who Like Pictures (slides)




The Nut That Ties Everything Together
Daniel Smith on Twitter