10 years of Kubernetes

☸️ Happy Birthdaynetes 🎉

I’m sincerely grateful for fellow friends in Kubernetes contributor community and the uplift on the industry.

Hi, I’m Caleb! 👋

Kubernetes in past years 🗓️

Kubernetes v1.0 ☝️

First commit by Joe Beda: June 7, 2014 (2c4b3a5). Including the work of Ville Aikas, Tim Hockin, Dawn Chen, Brian Grant and Daniel Smith.

Google announced at DockerCon 2014.

“Yet another container orchestration system”

CNCF founded 🚀

in 2015, a new brand of the Linux Foundation was founded.

https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2015/06/21/new-cloud-native-computing-foundation-to-drive-alignment-among-container-technologies/

All is new* ✨

New APIs…

• Pods
• Services
• ConfigMaps
• Secrets
• ServiceAccounts
• ReplicationControllers
• PetSets

via v1.0 -> v1.8

*collected thoughts from production infra at Google put as new APIs

Surprise support 😲

AWS started supporting Kubernetes via EKS in 2017, two years after the initial release.

Stable 🔮

and conformant APIs

• networking
  • EndpointsSlices
• applications
  • Deployments
  • StatefulSets (formerly PetSets)
  • HorizonalPodAutoscalers
  • PodDisruptionBudgets
• storage
  • PersistentVolume(Claim)s
• batch
  • (Cron)Jobs
• security
  • RBAC

and many more - via v1.9 -> v1.30

Other important things to come from the project 🔥

• govenance structure (git.k8s.io/community/governance.md) and values (kubernetes.dev/community/values)
• controller pattern with promise theory (if not desired state, reconcile)
• well maintained Etcd (prev. CoreOS), CoreDNS (prev. Miek Gieben @ Google)
• extensions via custom resources
• GitOps tooling like FluxCD and ArgoCD

Community in bloom 🌼

Trivia 👀

• there were an early kubectl-like utilities called cloudcfg and kubecfg
• api-server could be accessed without auth, including exec calls (scary!)
• Docker-only-ness – no CRI here (yet!)

Fruits of our labor 🥝

• boring, consistent and reliable infrastructure
• open governance
• neutral cross-vendor collaboration & conformance
• you here today

It was worth it 🙏

Uplift, make new and come together