Aflevering #120 Let Them Cook — Inside The Kubernetes Recipes Cookbook

In this episode, we sit down with Luca Berton and Grzegorz (Greg) Stencel, authors of the brand-new book Kubernetes Recipes — a 400+ page cookbook packed with real, practical solutions for everyday Kubernetes challenges. Luca and Greg explain how the idea for the book started: most Kubernetes books do a great job explaining theory, but very few show how to solve the messy, real-world issues engineers actually face.  So instead of writing “yet another reference manual,” they chose the cookbook format: ?? a problem, ?? a clear solution, ?? and deeper explanations when needed. We discuss: - How they co-wrote the book late at night while balancing work, family life, and open source contributions. - Why enterprise Kubernetes, especially in heavily regulated environments like finance, is a completely different beast. - How their recipes cover everything from beginner topics to advanced CRDs, operators, networking, storage, NFS, stateful apps, and multi-cloud clusters. - The tools that actually help developers — from KubeLens to vCluster. - Why writing a book forces more accuracy and consistency than video tutorials. - How they used real questions (including many from Stack Overflow) to choose the most relevant scenarios. We also talk about the future of Kubernetes: - Luca sees AI workloads, better observability, and complexity-reducing tooling as the next big wave. - Greg stresses that developer experience must improve — especially for developers suddenly expected to “learn Kubernetes” overnight. And yes, cluster upgrades remain painful. A fun and insightful conversation about practical Kubernetes knowledge, open source culture, and what engineers actually need today. Stuur ons een bericht. ACC ICT Specialist in IT-CONTINUÏTEIT Bedrijfskritische applicaties én data veilig beschikbaar, onafhankelijk van derden, altijd en overal Support the show Like and subscribe! It helps out a lot. You can also find us on: De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast - YouTube Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast (@k8spodcast.nl) | TikTok De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast Where can you meet us: Events This Podcast is powered by: ACC ICT - IT-Continuïteit voor Bedrijfskritische Applicaties | ACC ICT