Find out more: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure architects Pradeep Vincent and Josh Horwitz explain OCI's Virtual Nodes innovation that uses OCI Container Instances and Virtual Kubelet with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and how they offer infinite capacity, increased agility, and reduced cost compared to traditional Kubernetes managed nodes. 00:00 Intro to a new Kubernetes node: Virtual Nodes 00:53 Container Instances: underlying construct for Virtual Nodes 2:29 Kubernetes overview: pods and nodes 4:50 Relationship between Kubernetes and Container Instances 6:07 What's a serverless Virtual Node? 7:30 Customer benefits from Virtual Nodes 8:59 How we built Virtual Nodes 10:22 Differences between a Virtual Node v Managed Node 11:00 Virtual Nodes architecture 13:33 Scalability and availability of Virtual Nodes 15:40 When to use Virtual Nodes v Managed Nodes 18:05 Strong isolation of Virtual Nodes 18:44 Virtual Node advantages Like what you learned about OCI's Virtual Nodes? Subscribe now For more architectural breakdowns, catch up on more First Principles videos: First Principles: Baking Security into the Cloud: First Principles: inside OCI Container Instances: First Principles: building a high performance network in the public cloud: First Principles: superclusters with RDMA—Ultra-high performance at massive scale: First Principles: using redundancy and recovery to achieve high durability in OCI Object Storage: Contact Cloud Platform Sales: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) - Cloud Storage - Cloud Compute - Cloud Networking - Multicloud - Cloud Economics - Cloud Computing Defined - Follow us here: LinkedIn: Facebook: Instagram: Twitter: #Kubernetes #containers #highscale