Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, with Sabine Wolz

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Why does a car manufacturer own an IT company? How did that IT company end up running 900 Kubernetes clusters, starting at version 0.9? Craig asks these questions and more of Sabine Wolz, Product Manager at Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation.

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Chatter of the week

• Live UK political coverage on the day of recording. As predicted, news happened slightly faster than publication, and at the time of release, Boris Johnson is expected to resign as Conservative Party leader today.
• Shibboleth
• Lord of the Rings TV show moved to UK

News of the week

• GKE Cost Allocation
• CubeFS accepted as CNCF incubating project
• Bare metal deployments for EKS Anywhere
  • Episode 142, with Gianluca Arbezzano
  • Cubernetes
    • Episode 20, with Justin Garrison
• OpenShift Service Mesh 2.2
• Tanzu Mission Control adds FluxCD
• Pixie plugins
• What GKE users need to know about Kubernetes’ new service account tokens, by Taahir Ahmed
• Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation, by Jeremy Brown
  • Hacker News discussion
• eBPF Summit 2022

Links from the interview

• Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation
• Mercedes-Benz and Daimler Truck
• How should electric vehicles sound?
• Ulm and its church
• Sabine’s KubeCon keynote
• How to Migrate 700 Kubernetes Clusters to Cluster API with Zero Downtime: Tobias Giese & Sean Schneeweiss
• Game theory
• FOSS Manifesto
• Inner source
• CNCF End User Community
• The promise of flying cars
• Sabine Wolz on LinkedIn