#8 About Kubernetes

In this episode, Toby and Krisztian are joined by Xavier Torres, a senior infrastructure and observability engineer, for a practical dive into Kubernetes. They cover what Kubernetes actually is, how pods, services, deployments and ingresses fit together, and what you genuinely need to run it in production. The conversation moves through observability tooling, GitOps with Argo CD, secrets management, service meshes, managed vs self-hosted Kubernetes, autoscaling, and whether Kubernetes is even the right tool for most companies.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction and guest welcome

1:19 Kubernetes explained: what it actually is

3:14 Pods, containers and shared namespaces

6:09 Services: the internal networking abstraction

8:02 Ingress controllers: getting traffic in

10:34 Managed Kubernetes vs self-hosted

16:03 Minimum viable observability: logs and metrics

21:41 Dealing with YAML sprawl

25:57 GitOps with Argo CD

36:09 Stateful workloads with Crossplane

40:22 When does Kubernetes become the wrong hammer?