#120 Let Them Cook — Inside the Kubernetes Recipes Cookbook

In this episode, we sit down with Luca Berton and Grzegorz (Greg) Stencel, authors of the brand-new book Kubernetes Recipes — a 400+ page cookbook packed with real, practical solutions for everyday Kubernetes challenges.

Luca and Greg explain how the idea for the book started: most Kubernetes books do a great job explaining theory, but very few show how to solve the messy, real-world issues engineers actually face.
 So instead of writing “yet another reference manual,” they chose the cookbook format:
👉 a problem,
👉 a clear solution,
👉 and deeper explanations when needed.

We discuss:

• How they co-wrote the book late at night while balancing work, family life, and open source contributions.
• Why enterprise Kubernetes, especially in heavily regulated environments like finance, is a completely different beast.
• How their recipes cover everything from beginner topics to advanced CRDs, operators, networking, storage, NFS, stateful apps, and multi-cloud clusters.
• The tools that actually help developers — from KubeLens to vCluster.
• Why writing a book forces more accuracy and consistency than video tutorials.
• How they used real questions (including many from Stack Overflow) to choose the most relevant scenarios.

We also talk about the future of Kubernetes:

• Luca sees AI workloads, better observability, and complexity-reducing tooling as the next big wave.
• Greg stresses that developer experience must improve — especially for developers suddenly expected to “learn Kubernetes” overnight. And yes, cluster upgrades remain painful.

A fun and insightful conversation about practical Kubernetes knowledge, open source culture, and what engineers actually need today.

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