Full Stack Journey 046: Understanding AWS Controllers For Kubernetes (ACK)

Today’s Full Stack Journey podcast focuses on a recent AWS announcement on the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). Currently available as a developer preview, ACK is a project to let customers manage their AWS services directly from Kubernetes.
Joining Scott on the podcast to talk about ACK is Justin Garrison (@rothgar on Twitter), co-author of Cloud Native Infrastructure, long-time member of the Kubernetes community, and currently working as a container advocate at AWS.
Over the course of the discussion about ACK, Scott and Justin cover:

* Details about the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes
* The reasons for creating ACK
* Intended use cases
* Whether the project is ready for consumption by the general public
* Technologies that ACK leverages
* Some things to learn in preparation for evaluating—or potentially deploying—this project

Tech Bytes: Dell Azure Stack HCI
Stay tuned after the episode for a Tech Bytes conversation, sponsored by Dell Technologies, that explores a collaboration among Dell, Microsoft, and Intel on the Azure Stack HCI solution. We explore how these companies have worked together to optimize performance and scale of the Azure Stack platform.
Show Notes:
AWS-Controllers-K8s – GitHub
Introducing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) – AWS
Unboxing ACK (Video) – Containers from the couch.com
Cloud Native Infrastructure – O’Reilly book
Justingarrison.com – Justin’s personal blog
@rothgar – Justin on Twitter