# Kubernetes Podcast: Descartes Labs, with Tim Kelton

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**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-podcast-descartes-labs-with-tim-kelton/1477 "2018-08-14T15:36:19Z")\
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[https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/016-descartes-labs/](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/016-descartes-labs/)  
[Tim Kelton](https://twitter.com/timbuktuu) is co-founder and cloud architect for [Descartes Labs](http://www.descarteslabs.com/). Prior to starting Descartes Labs, he was a R&D engineer for 15 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on problem areas such as deep learning, space systems, nuclear non-proliferation, and counterterrorism. Tim talks to [Craig and Adam](https://kubernetespodcast.com/about) about the use of Kubernetes and Istio in geopolitics, machine learning and food supply.

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### News of the week

- [Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Prometheus Graduation](https://www.cncf.io/announcement/2018/08/09/prometheus-graduates/)
- [OpenMetrics project accepted into CNCF Sandbox](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/openmetrics-project-accepted-into-cncf.html)
- [An Exciting New Direction](https://kubic.opensuse.org/blog/2018-08-09-newdirection/) for the Kubic project
- [Demystifying RBAC in Kubernetes](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/08/01/demystifying-rbac-in-kubernetes/)
- [Kubebuilder 1.0](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/10/introducing-kubebuilder-an-sdk-for-building-kubernetes-apis-using-crds/) scaffolds (with a C) Kubernetes APIs and operators
  - [Getting Started](https://book.kubebuilder.io/quick_start.html)
  - [GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder)

- [Operator Lifecycle Management](https://itnext.io/wth-is-a-operator-lifecycle-manager-873cf1661b04) - it’s operators all the way down

### Links from the interview

- [Descartes Labs](http://www.descarteslabs.com/)
  - [Climate Change and Rising Food Prices Heightened Arab Spring](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-and-rising-food-prices-heightened-arab-spring/)
  - [Why DARPA Funded a Farm Tech Startup](http://fortune.com/2017/03/23/new-mexico-descartes-labs-darpa-grant/)
  - [Announcing our $30M Series B](https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/announcing-our-30m-series-b-e658d58b4024)
  - [Global-scale water monitoring in the cloud](https://medium.com/@DescartesLabs/global-scale-water-monitoring-in-the-cloud-c38cb4e9fe56)

- [Beowulf clusters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster) (a Slashdot meme)
- [Omega](https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub41684) and [Borg](https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438) papers
- [Mountain biking in Sedona](http://otesports.com/locations/sedona/trails/)
- [Descartes Labs Python client](https://docs.descarteslabs.com/)
- SRE books:
  - [Site Reliability Engineering](https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)
  - [The Site Reliability Workbook](https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html) - free until August 23

- Descartes Labs talks from Cloud Next ‘18:
  - [SRE Quality Operations for Your Services Using the Istio Service Mesh & Stackdriver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1TQeeZN05Y) - with Tim Kelton and Jay Judkowitz from [Stackdriver Service Monitoring](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/drilling-down-into-stackdriver-service-monitoring.html)
  - [How Computers See the Earth: A ML Approach to Understanding Satellite Imagery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNnPagENxQ) with Kyle Story
  - [Building Multi-Tenancy ML Applications with GKE and Istio to Better Understand the Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcFIOs5bz0) with Tim Kelton and Sam Skillman

- [Descartes Labs GeoVisual Search](http://www.descarteslabs.com/search.html) - find the squares on the globe that look most like a given square
- [Tim Kelton](https://twitter.com/timbuktuu) on Twitter