Episode 24 - Google Open Source Tools and Doner Kebabs with Ahmet Alp Balkan

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.