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The First CustomerThe First Customer - From Open Source to Enterprise Dominance with Testkube Co-founder Ole LensmarIn this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Ole Lensmar, co-founder and CTO of Testkube.Ole shares his unique perspective growing up across Germany, the US, and Sweden, and how those experiences shaped his adaptability and approach to entrepreneurship. He reflects on the differences between launching tech startups in Europe versus the United States, and why he believes the US remains a more mature market for scaling innovation. From his first ventures in the mid-90s to the creation of SoapUI, Ole explains how his passion for coding and solving practical problems led him to build...
2026-01-1424 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastCloud Native Testing and AI - Why Tests provide the ContextIn this episode, Ole Lensmar joins Richard Li, founder of Polar Sky, to explore how testing strategies must evolve for the age of AI. They discuss the journey of cloud-native tools like Telepresence and Richard's key insight for agentic coding: using automated tests as the "context" to guide AI behavior, rather than relying on complex prompts to describe system rules.The conversation also digs into the mechanics of building AI-driven software, emphasizing why "evals" are critical for measuring success. Richard shares practical strategies for treating evaluations as data management problems and explains how his team uses simple...
2025-11-1420 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastModernizing CI/CD: Integrating Automated Testing with Cargo, Tilt, and PlaywrightOn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing podcast, Ole Lensmar welcomes Matt McLane from Doc Network to discuss how they completely transformed their development and testing lifecycle. Matt details their journey away from a slow, manual deployment process—which involved risky ad-hoc testing on a staging environment connected to production—to a modern, automated workflow built for quality and speed. By implementing tools like GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Cargo, they built a pipeline where testing is a core component, not an afterthought.The conversation dives deep into their cloud-native test...
2025-09-1723 min
The CloudcastKubernetes-native Continuous TestingOle Lensmar (@olensmar, Founder/CTO at @TestKube_io) discusses how Kubernetes-native testing platforms are designed to address limitations in traditional CI/CD testing workflows. The conversation covers how TestKube differs from existing testing environments, expands test coverage opportunities for development and QA teams, and provides best practices for testing in Kubernetes environments.SHOW: 957SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #957 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER P...
2025-09-1032 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastScaling Testing for the Age of AI-Generated CodeIn this episode, the main conversation is between host Ole Lensmar and guest Atul, who are joined by special guest Dmitry, the CEO of Testkube. Together, they dive deep into the evolving landscape of software testing, framed by Atul's fascinating journey from manual QA to a cloud native developer advocate.The conversation kicks off with Atul sharing his unique career path, highlighting how starting in manual testing gave him a foundational understanding of system failure points—an invaluable edge in the world of development and cloud native technologies.The co...
2025-08-2524 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastBreaking Things on Purpose: The Real Power of Chaos Engineering with Benjamin WilmsIn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Benjamin Wilms, founder and CEO of Steadybit, to explore the role of chaos engineering in building resilient cloud-native systems—from early-stage startups to global enterprises.Benjamin shares how his journey from consulting to founding Steadybit was shaped by one key lesson: the best learning happens when systems fail. He explains how chaos engineering can shift from a manual, reactive effort to a repeatable practice that empowers teams to uncover weaknesses before they cause real-world outages.They also dig into the cultural si...
2025-07-1624 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastThe Swagger Revolution: How API Specs Became a Testing Superpower with Tony TamIn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Tony Tam, creator of Swagger API (now known as the OpenAPI specification) and a pioneer in API specification standards, to explore the unexpected ways Swagger transformed software testing.Tony shares the origin story of Swagger: from its roots in solving REST client generation to how it became a foundational tool for testing, documentation, and collaboration across teams. He explains how OpenAPI specs gave rise to a new generation of spec-driven testing, enabling everything from automated validation to smarter negative test cases.
2025-07-0224 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastTesting Cloud-Native Applications in Regulated Environments with Cherif SahraouiIn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with In this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Cherif Sahraoui, QA Lead & Consultant working with 50Hertz Transmission—one of Germany’s four major electricity transmission system operators, responsible for delivering power across northern and eastern Germany—to explore the complexities of testing cloud-native applications in highly regulated industries like energy.Cherif shares how his team manages application testing across both cloud and on-prem environments, why manual and exploratory testing still play a crucial role, and how to...
2025-06-2025 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastGovernance Isn’t a Dirty Word: Making Policy Part of the Dev Flow with Joe KarlssonIn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Joe Karlsson, Developer Advocate at CloudQuery, to discuss how testing and governance intersect in today’s fast-moving cloud-native environments. They explore what it takes to catch issues like cloud drift, overly permissive configurations, and deprecated services—before they become costly outages.Joe shares real-world insights from his work helping teams bake governance into CI/CD pipelines without slowing down delivery. From debugging GitHub Actions to building a culture of shared responsibility, this episode is packed with practical advice on making governance feel less like...
2025-06-0425 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastThe Intersection of Platform Engineering and Testing with Daniel BryantIn this episode of the Cloud Native Testing Podcast, Ole Lensmar sits down with Daniel Bryant, Engineer, Speaker, and Head of Product Marketing at Syntasso, to explore how testing is evolving in modern cloud-native environments. They dive into the critical role platform engineering plays in shaping a healthy testing culture, and how teams can strike the right balance between enforcing standards and empowering developers.Daniel shares hard-won insights on testing in production, infrastructure validation, and why contract testing is essential when working with external dependencies. From technical best practices to organizational mindset shifts, this episode unpacks what...
2025-05-2325 min
Cloud Native Testing PodcastBeyond Pipelines: Designing a Testing Culture That Actually Works in Cloud Native with Joseph KarpIn this episode, Ole Lensmar talks with Joe Karp, DevOps Architect at UWM, about what it really takes to build a testing culture inside a modern, cloud-native organization. Joe shares how his team intentionally designed clear ownership between developers, QA engineers, and platform teams—and why empowering devs to own their testing is key to scaling quality across hundreds of services.From infrastructure-level chaos testing to critical-path monitoring in production, Joe walks through the tooling, strategies, and cultural shifts that enabled UWM to test across multi-cloud, multi-cluster environments. They discuss why off-the-shelf tools often fall short, how in...
2025-04-3033 min
CaSE: Conversations about Software EngineeringOle Lensmar - From Swagger to TestCube: Evolving Testing Practices in the Kubernetes Era
How do you ensure the reliability of your cloud-native applications in an ever-evolving landscape? In this episode of CaSE, we dive deep into the intricate world of cloud-native testing with Ole Lensmar, the mind behind SoapUI, serial entrepreneur and Founder of TestKube. Join us as we explore the challenges of testing in Kubernetes environments, the balance between automation and manual testing, and the evolving role of AI in shaping our testing strategies.
TestKube – Test execution at scale for CI/CD
KubeShop -- An Accelerator for Open Source Startups
Swagger – API design, documentation, and testing
SoapUI – Testing tool for SO...
2025-03-171h 34
Cloud Native Testing PodcastWelcome to the Cloud Native Testing Podcast!Welcome to the Cloud Native Testing podcast! Meet your host Ole Lensmar—creator of SoapUI, CTO of Testkube, and a long-time advocate for better software testing. We’ll explore the challenges of testing in cloud-native environments, the role of observability, automation, and emerging trends that are shaping the future of testing. Whether you're a tester, developer, or platform engineer, this podcast is for anyone looking to extend their testing strategies into today's cloud native world.Thanks for listening!---This podcast is sponsored by Testkube—the cloud-native testing framework that helps teams a...
2025-02-2101 min
Cloud UnfilteredKubeconNA23 - Ole Lensmar and Cortney Nickerson discuss testing, cloudnative and...Join us for a special episode of Cloud Unfiltered, where we're chatting with Ole Lensmar and Cortney Nickerson from KubeShop. We'll be discussing KubeShop's mission to simplify the Kubernetes experience and the exciting projects they're working on, including Monocle, Testkube, Botkube, TraceTest, and Kubefirst.In this episode, we'll cover:What KubeShop is and what they doThe different projects that KubeShop is working onHow KubeShop's projects can help developers and teams get more out of KubernetesThe future of KubeShop and their plans for the futureWe'll also take some questions...
2023-11-1330 min
The CD Pipeline Show - Continuously Delivering Software from A to ZAdvancing Testing in Continuous Delivery: Unveiling Challenges, Strategies, and the CD Foundation’s Initiatives - The CD Pipeline EP 8As software development practices evolve, continuous delivery (CD) has become a popular approach for accelerating the delivery of high-quality software products. Robust testing methodologies introduced throughout the software development life cycle are central to the success of CD, but there are some challenges organizations need to address first.
This panel brings together industry experts Tracy Ragan (CEO at DeployHub), Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Co-CEO at Launchable) and Ole Lensmar (CTO at Testkube) to explore the importance of testing in continuous delivery and its impact on the overall software development process.
Along with hosts Alan Shimel and Lori...
2023-07-2440 min