Podcast Episode Details

SIG-Node, with Dawn Chen

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Episode 22

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Dawn Chen, TL for SIG-Node and the Google Kubernetes Engine node team, joins Craig and Adam this week. She has worked on containers and container schedulers since 2007 - not a typo. We also bring you the news, in part from the echo chamber of Google Cloud Summit in Sydney.

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Chatter of the week

• Stickers!
• Google Cloud Summit in Hong Kong
• Google Cloud Next in London
• Gartner Symposium Orlando
• KubeCon Shanghai

News of the week

• NetApp acquires StackPointCloud
• Cloud news:
  • Sandbox pods on GKE
    • Signup form
  • Kubernetes tools for Azure Stack
  • EKS can generate kubeconfig files!
• GSoC: katacontainer support in containerd, by Jian Liu
• linkerd 2.0 is GA
  • Thomas Rampelberg tells you how to use it
• Cortex added to the CNCF sandbox
• Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, based on Istio
• Microservice observability with Istio at Trulia
• Contour 0.6 from Heptio

Links from the interview

• Dawn Chen on GitHub
• The Borg paper
• Process containers (later 'cgroups'):
  • The first submission of containers to the Linux kernel
  • Early coverage of process containers
  • Paul Menage's 2007 paper "Adding Generic Process Containers to the Linux Kernel"
  • Dawn's first job: tracking processes. Each job had its own GID - she would use netlink connection tracking to map processes and threads to GIDs, and, using procfs, figure out CPU and memory usage.
  • Dawn's second job: adjusting CPU usage using nice

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