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Conversational AI Podcast using NotebookLM

Posted on May 15, 2025by Tharinda Wicky

Digging into Google’s #NotebookLM new “Audio Overview” feature, and the implications for technical documentation and learning are significant. This functionality empowers users to generate interactive audio summaries from textual input, spanning diverse languages.

My recent tryout involved feeding Kubernetes Helm console output logs into #NotebookLM. The platform’s ability to synthesize this technical data into a coherent, conversational audio overview in Sinhala ( සිංහල my native language) is a testament to its sophisticated NLP capabilities. This has profound implications for standardizing complex technical knowledge and fostering cross-cultural understanding within the engineering community. #NotebookLM #AI #NLP #Kubernetes #Helm #DevOps #TechEducation #Localization #Gemini

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Kubernetes Cluster Setup with Kind-k8s Installer

Posted on April 21, 2024by Tharinda Wicky

By following this guide, you’ll be able to quickly and easily set up a Kubernetes cluster on your Windows PC with the following tech stack

  • WSL2 backend with Ubuntu
  • Docker Desktop
  • Kubectl – Windows

K8s Kind Installer

Kind is a simple, lightweight CNCF-certified Kubernetes installer CNCF K8s Installer

Compared to Minikube, Kind provides support for Hyperkit on Mac and Hyper-V on Windows hypervisors, including features such as Load balancer and Ingress support. Additionally, Kind supports multi-node clusters, including those with high availability (HA).

Quick prerequisites installation

#Kubectl Kind using powershell

curl.exe -Lo kind-windows-amd64.exe https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/v0.22.0/kind-windows-amd64

Move-Item .\kind-windows-amd64.exe C:\Dev\env\kind\kind.exe

#Kubectl Install
curl.exe -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v1.30.0/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe

Create cluster

Creating a cluster with 1 control plane node and 3 workers

apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
kind: Cluster
name: ckad-cluster
nodes:
- role: control-plane
- role: worker
- role: worker
- role: worker

This will create all the necessary k8s control plane objects and worker nodes

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