In this episode of The Continuous & Cloud Podcast, Jacob and Lauri chat with Ville Törhönen, Product Owner at UpCloud, about UpCloud’s upcoming managed Kubernetes Service (UKS).
During this episode we discuss
What is a managed Kubernetes service?
What is UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS)?
Motivation behind UKS’ development
What’s under the hood?
How to create a Kubernetes cluster in UKS
What do you get from UpCloud that supports the Kubernetes service?
What do you get ‘out of the box’?
What can you customise?
How has it been developing UKS?
Timescale and team
Kubernetes community and open source projects
Observability and monitoring in UKS
What are the main benefits of using UpCloud and UKS?
When will UKS be available?
Example use case: using UKS with Terraform for IaC
Mentioned in the podcast
UpCloud Kubernetes Engineer vacancy
UpCloud CSI driver on Github
About Ville Törhönen
Ville (MSc, Tech) is working as a Product Owner at UpCloud. He is responsible for the upcoming UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS) product offering but also Developer Experience on the platform. Previously he’s been building various businesses and products on top of container technologies in companies like Unity, Noice and Redhill Games.
About UpCloud
UpCloud is a European Cloud Service Provider offering fast, easy-to-use, and reliable cloud products and services. UpCloud has 12 data centers around the globe. The company is a a strong believer in open source. That’s why all their services are available from public repositories. UpCloud’s mission is to make Infrastructure as Code easier for businesses of all sizes.
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Ville Törhönen
Jacob Lärfors
Lauri Suomalainen
