Saiyam Pathak

@Saiyampathak

CNCF Ambassador, multi cloud, Influx ACE, Rancher, Kubernetes guy

bangaloreJoined June 2020

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Saiyam is working at Loft as a Principal Developer Advocate. Previously, at Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of k8s, including the machine learning platform, scaling, multi-cloud, managed k8s services, and k8s documentation. He's worked on implementing Kubernetes solutions in different organizations. When not coding, Saiyam works on contributing to the community by writing blogs and organizing local meetups for Kubernetes and CNCF. He is also a Kubestronaut/Portainer/Traefik/CNCF ambassador and can be reached on Twitter @saiyampathak.

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SPSaiyam Pathakkubesimplify.hashnode.devMay 11 · 12 min read

How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)

A Service has no pod IPs in it. We covered that in the last post. So somewhere, something is keeping a list of every pod IP that matches the Service's label selector. So that kube-proxy can program th

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SPSaiyam Pathakkubesimplify.hashnode.devMay 11 · 7 min read

NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform

NVIDIA just open-sourced the full NVCF platform under Apache 2.0. Not a thin SDK, not a client library. The actual control plane, invocation plane, compute plane, CLIs, Helm charts, and database migra

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SPSaiyam Pathakkubesimplify.hashnode.devMay 5 · 12 min read

How a Kubernetes Service Actually Works (and All 5 Types You Need)

A pod gets created. It gets an IP. Then it dies. A new pod replaces it. New IP. Now imagine you have ten pods of the same app, and they restart all the time. Which IP do you call? You can't. That's the problem Services solve, and the answer is more i...

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SPSaiyam Pathakkubesimplify.hashnode.devApr 29 · 6 min read

A Kubeconfig for GKE That Doesn't Need gcloud

When you run gcloud container clusters get-credentials, the kubeconfig it writes looks innocent — until you hand it to a teammate and they hit: error: exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1" …or the classic gke-gcloud-a...

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SPSaiyam Pathakkubesimplify.hashnode.devApr 28 · 22 min read

What Actually Happens When kube-scheduler Picks a Node (13 Stages Inside Kubernetes)

Your pod has just been written to etcd. The API server returned 201 Created. The pod exists. But spec.nodeName is still empty, and that is the entire reason this post exists. A pod with no node is not

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How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)

NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform

How a Kubernetes Service Actually Works (and All 5 Types You Need)

A Kubeconfig for GKE That Doesn't Need gcloud

What Actually Happens When kube-scheduler Picks a Node (13 Stages Inside Kubernetes)

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How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)

NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform

How a Kubernetes Service Actually Works (and All 5 Types You Need)

A Kubeconfig for GKE That Doesn't Need gcloud

What Actually Happens When kube-scheduler Picks a Node (13 Stages Inside Kubernetes)