GR-OSS OUT Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Kubernetes”

The Messy Reality of Shipping Helm 4 with Andrew Block

G-Research Open Source Software — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:00:00 -0700

Tabitha sits down with Andrew Block, Distinguished Architect at Red Hat
and maintainer of Helm — the package manager powering Kubernetes
deployments worldwide — to talk about what it really took to ship
Helm 4.

They cover the 12-month journey to a major release, what got left on
the cutting room floor, how the team nearly broke a huge chunk of the
community with one dependency change, and why Andy thinks open source
is one of the most powerful forces for bringing people together —
regardless of what's happening in the world.

They also get into the bigger questions: maintainer burnout, the role
AI is starting to play in open source workflows, and what it means to
build software that outlasts the hype cycle.

If you use Helm — or you care about the humans behind the tools you
depend on — this one's worth your time.

Find Helm on GitHub, or join the community on Kubernetes Slack in

helm-users or #helm-dev. Developer meetings run every Thursday at

12:30 ET.

G-Research is hiring in Dallas, TX and London, UK! Apply at https://gresearch.com/vacancies.

For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/mVKrrWOpMYM.

The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley.

Special Guest: Andrew Block.

Making Kubernetes Work for AI and Batch Workloads with Kevin Hannon

G-Research Open Source Software — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:00:00 -0800

Jay Faulkner sits down with Kevin Hannon (GitHub: kannon92), Kubernetes Contributor Award winner and maintainer of the JobSet project, to discuss the growing challenge of running AI and batch workloads on Kubernetes — a platform originally designed for web services and long-running applications.
Kevin shares his journey from G Research and the Armada project through to his current work improving Kubernetes upstream, including the multi-year effort to bring swap memory support to GA, the push to deprecate CGroups v1, and the emerging Workload Aware Scheduling initiative aimed at bringing gang scheduling into Kubernetes core.

The conversation covers the technical realities of running GPU workloads at scale, the human side of open source maintenance, and the often overlooked work of keeping CI infrastructure healthy across a massive distributed project.

Topics discussed include JobSets, CGroups v2, pressure stall information, topology aware scheduling, and the open source politics of shipping features in a large community-driven project.

G-Research is hiring in Dallas, TX and London, UK! Apply at https://gresearch.com/vacancies.

For a video version of this podcast, check out https://youtu.be/7EQW57BlroA.

The GR-OSS OUT Podcast is produced by Ben Wiley.

Special Guest: Kevin Hannon.

Kubernetes & Armada Development with Dejan Pele Pejchev

G-Research Open Source Software — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:00:00 -0700

Come join as Dejan Pejchev talks about his experience working with Kubernetes in the latest episode of the GR-OSS OUT podcast. Find out about how G-Research has engaged with the upstream CNCF communities to support their open source infrastructure.

See Dejan's talk about Kubernetes scheduler performance here: https://kccncna2024.sched.com/event/1i7p8

Read more about Armada at https://armadaproject.io

View a video version of this podcast, and more content about Open Source, including CNCF Armada, OpenStack, and many other projects at https://youtube.com/@oss-gr

Other links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7YTNG1U9I - Carlos Santana on Armada
https://www.cloudknit.io - one of Dejan's first projects

The GR-OSS OUT podcast is produced by Ben Wiley.

Special Guest: Dejan Zele Pejchev.