# Episode 098 : CUE templating language

- Hosted by @jbeda
- 2019-12-06

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## Table of Contents

- 00:00:00 - Welcome to TGIK!
- 00:00:00 - Week in Review

## Week in K8s

* re:Invent news wrt EKS
* [EKS with Fargate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-now-generally-available/)
* [EKS managed node groups](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/eks-managed-node-groups/)
* KubeCon!
* Lots to unpack here
* [Antrea](https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/2019/11/18/announcing-project-antrea/) from VMware
* [KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Video Playlist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0OcCUt4io&list=PLj6h78yzYM2NDs-iu8WU5fMxINxHXlien)
* Cloudyuga's [master list of slides and videos](https://github.com/cloudyuga/kubecon19-NA) (Bookmark this, trust me --jorge)
* New podcast: [The Podlets](https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/2019/11/20/introducing-podlets-podcast-audio-guide-to-cloud-native-concepts/)!
* [thepodlets.io](https://thepodlets.io/)
* [K8s API in book form](https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1201968527810236416): https://github.com/feloy/kubernetes-resources-reference
* Kubernetes [1.17rc2](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGELOG-1.17.md/#v1170-rc2) is out. 1.17 is on the home stretch, ~3 days left! Check out [the timeline](https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/tree/master/releases/release-1.17#timeline).
* [rOperator](https://github.com/psFried/roperator) - Experimental operator kit written in Rust
* How [tmobile uses k8s](https://www.altoros.com/blog/t-mobile-handles-1m-transactions-per-day-on-kubernetes/) for ~1m transactions a day
* A quick tour of how [Pinterest uses k8s](https://stackshare.io/pinterest/building-a-kubernetes-platform-at-pinterest)

## Show Notes
* https://cuelang.org/
* [The Logic of CUE](https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/)
* [Kubernetes Tutorial](https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/kubernetes/README.md)
* [Blog post putting CUE in context](https://blog.cedriccharly.com/post/20191109-the-configuration-complexity-curse/)

## Extra Stuff
* [Visual Studio Code plugin](https://github.com/betawaffle/vscode-cue) see the [vsc-extension-quickstart.md](https://github.com/betawaffle/vscode-cue/blob/master/vsc-extension-quickstart.md) file for install instructions.