Kubernetes at Uber with Lucy Sweet

May 13, 2026

Guest is Lucy Sweet, a Staff Software engineer at Uber and the lead for the Kubernetes Node Lifecycle Working Group. Imagine trying to move millions of compute cores and thousands of microservices to a brand new platform. All without dropping a single user request, ride, or delivery. Sounds like an absolute logistical nightmare, right? Well, today we are sitting down with someone who actually lived to tell the tale Lucy. In this episode, we are diving deep into Uber's monumental infrastructure journey: moving away from their in-house system to Kubernetes. We’ll be unpacking the reality of running at this scale, why it's always DNS and why building things for fun is worth it.

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News of the week

• Broadcom announced donating Velero to the CNCF Sandbox Level

• KubeCon && CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026 Transparency report

• Call for Proposals for KubeCon && CloudNativeCon North America 2026 closes May 31

• OpenChoreo v1.0 CNCF Sandbox

Links from the interview

• Lucy on Linkedin

• Lucy's website

• [Article] Migrating Uber’s Compute Platform to Kubernetes

• [Lucy Video] Migrating 2 million CPU cores to Kubernetes

• Up: Portable Microservices Ready for the Cloud

• Peloton: Uber’s Unified Resource Scheduler for Diverse Cluster Workloads

• Odin: Uber’s Stateful Platform

• Uber Batch platform

• Apache Mesos

• Hyrum's Law

• GKE Blue-Green nodepools

• Node Lifecycle Working Group

• Scaling Infrastructure Management with Grail

• kubegpt.org

• Osquery

• Uber Careers