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Episode 154 : Pixie

• Hosted by @e_k_anderson
• 05/14/2021

Table of Contents

• 00:00:00 - Welcome to TGIK!
• 00:02:40 - Week in Review
• 00:14:10 - Getting started with Pixie
• 00:16:00 - Architecture overview
• 00:18:00 - No instrumentation vs instrumentation
• 00:26:30 - Looking at the Pixie install
• 00:34:00 - Starting px-sock-shop demo
• 00:38:50 - Log in to Pixie Cloud
• 00:45:00 - OOM the 8GB Minikube
• 00:52:00 - Get a bigger Minikube
• 00:57:20 - Installing Pixie and demo again
• 01:01:00 - Up and running with px-online-boutique demo
• 01:04:20 - Switch to "data isolation mode" and explore passthrough vs direct
• 01:11:00 - Exploring the Pixie dashboards
• 01:13:50 - Exploring the "scratch pad"
• 01:17:00 - 3 minute audio glitch... oops!
• 01:23:20 - "PxL" language, a DSL like Pandas
• 01:40:00 - Evan gives up on learning PxL on the fly
• 01:40:00 - Discussing dynamic tracing/logging with eBPF
• 01:45:00 - Comparision of Prometheus & Pixie models and usage (speculation)
• 01:47:00 - Tracing TLS methods
• 01:52:30 - Looking for apiserver traces
• 01:57:20 - Closeout

Week in Review

Core K8s

• Release 1.21 webinar. Hear about the new features in 1.21 from the Release and Enhancement leads who shepherded the process!
• Swap KEP -- making swap not destroy your cluster, but enable it for certain workloads

K8s and Cloud Native Ecosystem

• Kubecon last week! What were your favorite talks?
  • There were 17 day-zero and day-minus-one events!
  • The Long, Winding and Bumpy Road to CronJob’s GA - Maciej Szulik, Red Hat & Alay Patel, Red Hat
  • Hacking into Kubernetes Security for Beginners - Ellen Körbes, Tilt & Tabitha Sable, Datadog
  • Kubecon video playlist
    • Automating Your Home with K3s and Home Assistant - Eddie Zaneski & Jeff Billimek
• New project: kcp: minimal Kubernetes API server
• Antrea CNI accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• ChaosBlade chaos engineering toolkit accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• Fluid dataset orchestrator accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• Submariner cross-cluster connector accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• Vineyard zero-copy data sharing accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• WasmEdge WASM virtual machine accepted as a CNCF sandbox project
• Blog Post: LyftLearn: ML Model Training Infrastructure built on Kubernetes
• OSS from Google: Modernizing Oracle operations with Kubernetes and El Carro. Opeerator for Oracle.
• Falco response engine, four approaches: Kubeless, OpenFaaS, Knative, Tekton

Show Notes

• Looking at https://pixielabs.ai and https://px.dev
• Two versions:
  • New Relic hosted: https://pixielabs.ai
  • Non-vendor / OSS: https://px.dev
• Pixie on Kubernetes Podcast