Last week, I shared out the notes I took from an Open Space suggestion I made at DevOpsDays Chicago, “Container Conundrum: Pain points around containers.” The premise was trying to figure out where people are struggling with managing containers and the applications in them in their environments. My friend Ed Vielmetti joined in as well. I want to stress that no one else in the room identified their employer (nor would I have recorded that data or anything that could lead me to it), so your trade secrets are pretty safe. I learned quite a bit, so I’ll share more details here. Kubernetes Everywhere Everyone in the room was using Kubernetes. The participants were using no other container orchestrators. This shows that Kubernetes adoption grew tremendously in the three years since the last time I was at a DevOpsDays Chicago in person. One pair of folks in the Open Space were building artisanal vanilla Kubernetes clusters by hand across multiple clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, and IBM Cloud). But my notes indicate we’re not hitting on all cylinders with Kubernetes yet. I’ll explain further. ...

With a heavy heart, I bring you the news of Cody Crudgington’s passing in his home. The Kubernetes Contributor Comms Team sprang into action on behalf of Kubernetes Steering (who are all overworked already) this week to get coordinated around who to open up communication lanes with and generally being as open with the community as possible while respecting the wishes of Cody’s family. As I wrote on the CNCF Memorial for Cody, he and I had some unique similarities. He was willing to drop whatever he was doing to help folks in need. Cody was loved in the Kubernetes community for his positivity and optimism. The K8sContributor thread on Wednesday is filled with an outpouring of love and admiration. He truly will be missed. Follow K8sContributors on Twitter or the k-dev mailing list for any additional details. We will be doing a memorial at KubeCon for Cody. I will put those event details in this newsletter once I have them. I’ve reached out to those coordinating to let them know I’m here to help (especially since I’m local). ...

The bivalent booster is kicking me hard today. I got it around noon and my joints were hurting by 3 PM. My neck and both shoulders are sore and tight. Compounding existing injuries. I also just watched my Florida Gators lose to Tennessee. I’m gonna take the a break from writing an intro this week. Join the DevOps’ish Twitter Space on Monday This week in DevOps’ish, Monday, September 26th, 11 AM ET/1500 UTC Follow me on Twitter to get notified about upcoming Twitter Spaces. Subscribe to the DevOps’ish Podcast via your podcasting software of choice so you can listen on Mondays on your lunch break or ride home. Join the Twitter Space to participate and ask questions. Bring some friends along too! The format for the podcast will be to go over the inputs into the DevOps’ish newsletter. That way it won’t be a complete rehash of the newsletter itself but, instead a fun journey through the unique stories that people most enjoyed the previous week. ...

I held my first Twitter Space on Friday. I wanted an engaged audience driven AMA but, the idea was to have a look at the news of the week. It went well enough that, I’m hosting Twitter Spaces on Mondays at 10 AM ET going forward. I’ll talk about the news of the week and deep dive into some topics; you can participate via Twitter as well. Then I intend to turn the Twitter Space recordings into the newly refreshed DevOps’ish Podcast. I think this is a good way to help keep folks informed, expand the DevOps’ish audience and readership, and to expand the use of the content I create every week. The format for the podcast will be to go over the inputs into the DevOps’ish newsletter. That way it won’t be a complete rehash of the newsletter itself but, instead a fun journey through the unique stories that people most enjoyed the previous week. Follow me on Twitter to get notified about upcoming Twitter Spaces you can join in. Subscribe to the DevOps’ish Podcast via your podcasting software of choice so you can listen on Mondays on your lunch break or ride home. I’m looking forward to this! I look forward to seeing you join a Twitter Space to ask questions. Bring some friends along too! ...

9/11/01… 21 years later, it’s still not easy. I still get goosebumps at the thought of it. The sight of the date at the US Open women’s final was a jarring reminder I wasn’t going to get through this weekend without the utmost mental focus. Today is hard for a lot of people for a lot of reasons. I’m not going to let it ruin my day. This is the first 9/11 that all the perpetrators have been either captured or killed. We’ve reached this critical point in history where I feel things easing, just a little, around this day. My heart goes out to the families of those lost on 9/11 and the US-led wars afterward. Today especially, be kind. O’Reilly Book on Observability Engineering—Get Yours Free from Honeycomb! Manage complex cloud-native systems, improve customer experiences, and build & run better software using Honeycomb. Get your FREE copy of our new O’Reilly book and register for our Authors’ Cut Series to discuss key concepts. ...