While I advocate for the best tools money can buy, sometimes the non-financial cost of the best tool isn't worth it.

I love Kubernetes, but claiming it's the future of DevOps is a category error.

Andy Suderman of Fairwinds joins me to talk about the pros and cons of each of the big three cloud providers, and helps point new Kubernetes adoptors to the optimal provider for their needs.

In the best interest of the IT system as a whole, optimize for the engineer's time, since that time is expensive.

If you answer "no" any of these questions, strongly consider alternatives to Kubernetes for the time being.

Alex Feiszli from GRAVITL joins the adventure to discuss how to securely connect Kubernetes clusters across clouds from one cluster to another. The discussion spans how to make secure connections and how the connections might be used.

Keeping configuration in version control is highly correlated with software delivery performance.

If your application relies on serverless functions, often there's limited opportunity for "from an airplane" work.

If every engineer on your team cannot do _meaningful_ work from an airplane, your development environment is broken.

Eyar Zilberman joins the adventure to discuss Kubernetes schema validation tools. The panel jumps in and discusses the power of and the pros and cons of the different kinds of schema validations.

Monorepos and multiple repos have their own strengths and weaknesses. Switching from one to the other is painful. Make sure it's worth the pain!