Kubernetes Podcast from Google

10th Anniversary Special with Tim Hockin and Kelsey Hightower

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Jun 6, 2024
Tim Hockin and Kelsey Hightower discuss early Kubernetes days, impact on infrastructure, open-source challenges, and project evolution. They reflect on engineering challenges, user empathy, open-source economics, and future trajectory of Kubernetes over the next decade.
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ANECDOTE

Tim's Early Projects

  • Tim Hockin worked on Borg, Omega, and "Let Me Contain That For You" before Kubernetes.
  • "Let Me Contain That For You" was an open-source containerization project at Google, predating Docker.
INSIGHT

Declarative Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes popularized declarative infrastructure management.
  • This approach simplifies infrastructure management by focusing on the desired state.
ADVICE

Contributing to Kubernetes

  • Overcome the fear of Kubernetes' complexity; it's just code.
  • Start by reading code or tackling a specific problem you want to solve.
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