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Infrastructure learning across the modern IT stack.
Full Stack Journey - Packet Pushers follows the widening scope of modern IT work. Scott Lowe talks with practitioners about Kubernetes tools, cloud infrastructure, GitOps, observability, event-driven systems, and the career moves that connect them.
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Full Stack Journey - Packet Pushers is about the working life of IT professionals as their roles spread across infrastructure, software, automation, and cloud platforms. Scott Lowe anchors the show with a consistent premise: the modern technical career requires learning across a stack that keeps changing. That gives the podcast a useful shape. It can spend one conversation on Talos Linux and the value of removing operational burden, then another on Acorn as a bridge between application needs and Kubernetes primitives. It can move into GitOps and Flux, where repositories, controllers, Helm, Kustomize, and notifications become part of infrastructure management. Then it can step back into career terrain. Episodes with Rishabh Kumar and Tracy Holmes show the same learning theme from a human angle, through transitions, support systems, DevOps growth, and protecting time. The show is technical, but it is not only a tools catalog. It keeps asking how a practitioner gets from one responsibility to the next. Kubernetes is a recurring center of gravity, especially around deployments, observability, Linux networking, and the ecosystem that surrounds cloud-native operations. The conversations with Duffy Cooley and Mark Hinkle point toward that wider infrastructure map, with Cilium, eBPF, and TriggerMesh appearing as part of the same evolution. The register is plainspoken and curious. Guests are given room to explain the problem before the product or project takes over. Scott Lowe often restates a technical idea in operational terms, which makes dense topics easier to place. The result is a show for people tracking how infrastructure work actually changes: more automation, more cloud, more YAML, more cross-functional responsibility, and more need to keep learning without pretending every new layer is simple. Its strongest value is continuity. Across career stories and platform deep dives, the show treats professional growth and technical architecture as parts of the same journey.
Made for: Suits a listener who works around infrastructure, cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, or technical career change and wants grounded conversations about how those pieces connect. It also fits a practitioner who prefers explanatory interviews over trend-chasing.
What sets it apart: The show connects tool-level detail with career evolution, so Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and cloud roles are treated as changes in daily work rather than isolated buzzwords. Scott Lowe’s recurring frame gives varied guests a consistent path back to practical learning.
IT professional finding your job description changing? More and more tech added to your plate? You're not alone! Have a listen to these IT pros tell their stories about becoming full stack engineers.
Kubernetes YAML meets the 3 a.m. on-call alert; Scott Lowe wants the whole career story.
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A warm finale turns Full Stack Journey's technical range into a thoughtful look at how IT careers keep moving.
Full Stack Journey closes with Scott Lowe and Drew Connery-Murray taking a reflective pass through the show's long arc. They return to career change as much as technology, connecting conversations about PKI, GitOps, Kubernetes, authentication, Python, network automation, and…
Talos Linux makes less to manage feel like a real operational feature.
Talos Linux gets a second look as Scott Lowe and Andrew revisit a topic they first covered around April 2020, when Talos was still early. The episode centers on a sharp idea: an operating system built for Kubernetes work may gain power by becoming small, ephemeral, and stable.
A focused look at how Acorn can simplify the handoff between application teams and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Acorn is positioned as a practical bridge between what application teams want and what Kubernetes can assemble behind the scenes. Darren Shepard makes the case through a familiar split in responsibilities: app teams describe needs like resilience and connectivity, while…
A grounded cloud and DevOps career story built around technical learning and practical transition.
Career change is framed here as practical work rather than personal branding, with Rishabh Kumar moving from software engineering into cloud engineering and then DevOps.
A practical, readable tour of Flux, GitOps, and Kubernetes change management.
GitOps gets a grounded, useful airing as Frank Wiles discusses how RevSys moved customers toward Kubernetes and uses Flux to watch Git repositories for changes.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Scott Lowe closes Full Stack Journey with Drew Connery-Murray after almost six years and more than 80 episodes on the Packet Pushers network.
Andrew Reinhardt says Talos Linux is built around 'humans off of the machines,' with no bash, no SSH, and a Go-based PID1 that reacts to configuration events.
["Scott Lowe and Darren Shepard position Acorn as a containerized application platform for app owners who do not want to manage Kubernetes primitives.", "Shepard says his path runs through OpenStack, CloudStack, Rancher, K3S, and the same founding team now building Acorn after Cloud.com and Citrix.", "He argues that Kubernetes is still infrastructure-first, calling it \"assembly language\" for end users and saying infrastructure as code still leaves teams inside the complexity.", "The episode gets specific about Acorn images, ACORN files, service ACORNs for RDS, S3, SQS, and MongoDB Atlas, and a private beta that will sit above a managed hosted layer."]
Full Stack Journey host Scott Lowe talks with Rishabh Kumar, a Twilio developer evangelist and St.
Scott Lowe hosts Frank Wiles of RevSys for a practical discussion of GitOps and Flux, and Wiles says he has been in open source since 1996 after starting in ops and bouncing between ops and development.
Drew Conry Murray asks Cisco training boot camp developer advocate John Capobianco how PyATS supports network testing and automation.
Alexandria Leary moved from financial advising and bank risk management into information security after finding finance monotonous and stagnant.
Linda Ikitsko of Small Step Labs describes PKI as the infrastructure for issuing, managing, and verifying certificates and public keys.
An interview with Tracy Holmes about her career journey and lessons learned as an IT professional.
Host Scott Lowe interviews field CTO Duffy Cooley about his career journey and work on Cilium and eBPF in cloud-native networking.
Scott Lowe interviews Mark Hinkle about TriggerMesh and the evolution of IT professionals in full-stack engineering.
This episode discusses data protection in Kubernetes using the open-source project Valero, with guests Carlicia Thompson and Nolan Brubaker.
Host Scott interviews Lauren Malhoyt about career switching and leadership in the IT field.
Host interviews Steve Sloka about his journey into Kubernetes and containers, discussing how IT professionals can evolve their careers.
Host Scott Lowe interviews Matt Broberg about his journey as an IT professional evolving into a full stack engineer, focusing on practical advice for listeners.
An interview with a new IT professional about the journey of continuous learning in the tech industry.