Inception When the cloud-native world really got under way, especially the open-source part of it, much of what we used to do (and, likely, most companies still do) in custom and proprietary ways became standardized: defining workloads defining storage defining dependencies defining policies defining placement defining replicas load balancing rollout strategies packaging status many other things The tool to do this, of course, began with docker, which addressed, primarily the packaging and workloads part, but grew to Kubernetes as a basis for the rest of it.

Thoughts on KubeCon North America 2019 In late November, I spent several days at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, for the fourth or fifth time. It certainly has grown over the years; San Diego’s conference was oversubscribed at 12,000 attendees. In the somewhat snarky words of a friend from the Linux Foundation, “this feels a lot like the OpenStack conference at its peak.” I am hopeful that it doesn’t go down the same path.