746: Infrastructure for TS Devs: Kubernetes, WASM and Containers with David Flanagan

Deploy your own tech stack: Wes and Scott are joined by Kubernetes expert David Flanagan to be schooled on how Kubernetes, Docker and even WASM containers work.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:55 Should developers know how to run their own servers?
• 04:57 What is “bare metal”?
• 11:49 What the hell is Kubernetes?
• 12:25 Why would somebody need Kubernetes?
• 15:37 Using Kubernetes to spin up different instances on cloud providers.
• etcd
• 16:43 Kubernetes managing traffic spikes.
• 18:46 How much downtime can you handle?
• 22:11 What exactly is a container?
• 24:06 What containers do you prefer?
• Docker
• Containerd
• 25:28 Some additional terminology.
• OCI Open Container Initiative
• 26:43 What about WASM?
• WASM WebAssembly
• 29:31 Building a Docker container.
• 31:11 Why would someone want to use a WebAssembly container?
• 32:12 Are people shipping this technology?
• 33:36 What functions would you put in WASM?
• 36:57 How does someone make a WASM image?
• 39:22 A little more about Spin.
• Fermyon Spin
• 39:56 What type of processors are used in these servers?
• 42:27 What are home servers running on?
• Turning Pi 2
• Daniel Mangum
• Universal Blue
• 46:40 How should someone get started with Kubernetes?
• Kubernetes.io
• Rawkode YouTube
• Kubesimplify
• Learnk8s
• 48:51 Infrastructure as code.
• CDK for Terraform
• GraalVM
• 55:19 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.

Sick Picks

• David:
  • Golem.cloud
  • Restate.dev

Shameless Plugs

• David:
  • Rawkode YouTube

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