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Episode 24 - Google Open Source Tools and Doner Kebabs with Ahmet Alp Balkan
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:36:50
Publish Date: 2020-07-15 15:53:02
Description:

Ahmet Alp Balkan is a senior software engineer at Google Cloud, on cloud-native technologies: Kubernetes/GKE and Cloud Run. Ahmet went from an intern at Microsoft (even designing their badges) all the way to being the driving force behind a lot of well known cloud native technologies and open source tools such as kubectx, kubens, krew, and Cloud Run. We discuss his work on probably one of the best examples in the world of a working microservice deployment that google now uses as its flagship demo tool to show the power of Kubernetes. We round out the discussion with his work on Krew, Krew is the plugin manager for kubectl command-line tool. Krew helps you: 1) discover kubectl plugins,2) install them on your machine, and 3) keep the installed plugins up-to-date.

In the latter part of the episode, Ahmet was raised in Turkey and we discussed Turkish cuisine as well as his passion for Italian cuisine. In Turkish, "Alp" means "hero" , Ahmet is a hero to all of us and i could not be happier with the episode and how open and brilliant Ahmet is. Ahmet's impact on Kubernetes tooling cannot be understated and I am so glad we got to do this.

Episode Links

https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew (Contribute!) 
https://ahmet.im/blog/index.html
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatfor...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNKb... (Ahmet's Youtube Channel)

Timeline/Topic 
01:10 - Ahmet's Journey
07:00 - Kubectx/Kubens 
11:05 - Microservices Demo
15:20 - Krew 
22:28 - Lightning Round 
24:52 - Turkish cuisine... and the Doner Kebab discussion!
29:12 - Ahmet's love of Italian cuisine 
34:47 - Work Ahmet is most proud of.

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