# Kubernetes Podcast from Google: Engineering Productivity and Testing, with Katharine Berry **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** podcast\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-podcast-from-google-engineering-productivity-and-testing-with-katharine-berry/8530 "2019-10-30T10:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![castrojo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/castrojo/32/8_2.png) [@castrojo](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/castrojo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/kubernetes-podcast-from-google-engineering-productivity-and-testing-with-katharine-berry/8530/1 "2019-10-30T10:18:03Z")
[Katharine Berry](https://twitter.com/katharineberry) works in the Engineering Productivity team at Google Cloud, and works in SIG Testing on the Kubernetes project. She joins [Adam and Craig](https://kubernetespodcast.com/about) to discuss Prow, Pebble and ponies. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: [kubernetespodcast.com](https://kubernetespodcast.com) - mail: [kubernetespodcast@google.com](mailto:kubernetespodcast@google.com) - twitter: [@kubernetespod](http://twitter.com/kubernetespod) ### Chatter of the week - [SkyCity Convention Centre Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_SkyCity_Convention_Centre_Fire) - [A nice dinner out after a conference](https://twitter.com/craigbox/status/1186492953033920512) - [England knock NZ out of the Rugby World Cup](https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/50192618) - [Cards Against Humanity to open a restaurant](https://chicago.eater.com/2019/10/23/20928605/cards-against-humanity-chicago-board-game-cafe-restaurant-logan-square-bucktown-chicago-escape-room) - [The Holiday Hole](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/27/503502142/people-donated-nearly-100-000-to-dig-a-big-pointless-hole-in-the-ground) ### News of the week - [GKE Release Channels are in Beta](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/release-channels) - [GKE usage metering is GA: use it to combat over-provisioning](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/use-gke-usage-metering-to-combat-over-provisioning) - [Episode 40 with Madhu Yennamani](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/040-gke-usage-metering/) - [A new guide for PCI-DSS compliance on GKE](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/swipe-right-for-a-new-guide-to-pci-on-gke) - [Exploring container security: Vulnerability management in open-source Kubernetes](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/exploring-container-security-vulnerability-management-in-open-source-kubernetes) - [Episode 34 with Jordan Liggitt](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/034-the-kubernetes-cve/) - [Episode 17 with Jon Pulsifer](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/017-shopify-security/) - [HPE are set to deliver a Kubernetes platform for data analytics and ML](https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/antonio-neri-hpe-set-to-deliver-breakthrough-kubernetes-platform) - [How to bulid a kubectl plugin](https://elsesiy.com/blog/how-to-kubectl-plugin) by Jonas-Taha El Sesiy - [Episode 66, with Luk Burchard and Ahmet Alp Balkan](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/066-kubectl-plugins-and-krew/) - [NVIDIA Aerial framework](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/10/21/aerial-application-framework-5g-networks/) - [Red Hat partnership](https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-nvidia-team-bring-high-performance-software-defined-5g-ran-telecoms-industry) - [GPU Operator](https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-gpu-operator-simplifying-gpu-management-in-kubernetes/) - [Red Hat releases OpenShift Container Storage 4.2](https://blog.openshift.com/introducing-openshift-container-storage-4-2/) - [Kontena Lens 2.3 released](https://blog.kontena.io/lens-2-3-released/) - [New Octant.dev website](https://octant.dev/) and [v0.8.0](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/octant/releases/tag/v0.8.0) - [Zoho Catalyst](https://www.zoho.com/catalyst/) and [coverage from Container Journal](https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-ecosystems/zoho-taps-kubernetes-to-drive-faas-platform/) ### Links from the interview - [Pebble smartwatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_(watch)) - [Original $10m Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/getpebble/pebble-e-paper-watch-for-iphone-and-android) - [Sold to Fitbit](https://investor.fitbit.com/press/press-releases/press-release-details/2016/Fitbit-Inc-Acquires-Assets-from-Pebble/default.aspx) - [Rebble Web Services](https://rebble.io/) and the [Rebble Alliance](https://rebble.io/team/) - [What Rebble replaces](https://rebble.io/2018/02/15/rebble-web-services.html) - [How Pebble Users Are Keeping the Smartwatch Alive 3 Years After It Supposedly Died](https://t.co/Ol4lkTtbQW?amp=1) - [Google Engineering Productivity](https://landing.google.com/engprod/) - [Kubernetes SIG Testing](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-testing) - [Prow](https://git.k8s.io/test-infra/prow) - [The Machines Can Do the Work, a Story of Kubernetes Testing, CI, and Automating the Contributor Experience](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/29/the-machines-can-do-the-work-a-story-of-kubernetes-testing-ci-and-automating-the-contributor-experience/) by Aaron Crickenberger and Ben Elder - [Prow: Keeping Kubernetes CI/CD Above Water](https://kurtmadel.com/posts/native-kubernetes-continuous-delivery/prow/) - [Now in Jenkins-X](https://jenkins-x.io/docs/reference/components/prow/) - Tests are moving to [kind](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io) - [Episode 69 with Ben Elder](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/069-kind/) - [The Kubernetes Prow instance](https://prow.k8s.io/) - [Spyglass](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/prow/spyglass) - [Flaky tests](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-testing/flaky-tests.md) - [Automating away the test-infra role](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/release-team/role-handbooks/test-infra) - [Episode 72 with Lachlan Evenson](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/072-kubernetes-1.16/) - [Testgrid](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/testgrid) - [Automating Slack](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/slack-infra) - [Episode 74 with Jorge Castro](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/074-community-and-contributor-experience/) - [Closed due to attacks](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/issues/3247) - [Tempelis](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/slack-infra/tree/master/tempelis) - [SIG Testing on Slack](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/sig-testing) - [The pink pony](https://twitter.com/katharineberry) - [Generative adversarial network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network) - [AI generated ponies](https://twitter.com/AerialDraws) - [Katharine Berry on Twitter](https://twitter.com/katharineberry) - [Katharine’s web site](https://kathar.in) Original Source: [https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/077-eng-prod-and-testing/](https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/077-eng-prod-and-testing/)