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Is kubernetes a company?

SEJeff 10y ago
No, but all of the founders (and one of the top k8s guys from redhat) are at a firm based on it now: https://www.heptio.com https://www.heptio.com Jessie is an incredible speaker and a really funny engineer. It was genuinely hard to not laugh watching her talk @ Monitorama last year titled "Everything is Broken": https://vimeo.com/173704265 https://vimeo.com/173704265 Kubernetes is a project started by Google to make managing containers at scale, on premise, or on the cloud, streamlined and dead simple. So far it is "winning".
- dankohn1 10y ago
  Two of the three Kubernetes co-founders (Joe Beda and Craig Mcluckie) co-founded Heptio. The third (Brendan Burns) left Google for Microsoft, where Kubernetes on Azure reached GA today [0]. [0] http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/caas-the-foundation-for-next-gen-paas.html http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/caas-the-foundation-for-ne...
  - asadlionpk 10y ago
    I am using k8s on azure container service. It's good! One thing I am unable to do is re-scale the cluster (add more nodes). They don't allow that somehow.
    - dankohn1 10y ago
      That limitation was apparently lifted today. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/kubernetes-on-microsofts-azure-container-service-is-now-generally-available/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/kubernetes-on-microsofts-a... "This means the service is now backed by an SLA, and users will be able to get support contracts from Microsoft. Maybe more importantly, though, Microsoft also added two pivotal new features with this update: the ability to easily scale Kubernetes clusters up and down and support for high-availability setups with multiple masters."
dankohn1 10y ago
Kubernetes [0] is an open source project hosted at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) [1]. It has many companies cooperatively developing and commercially supporting it [2]. Also, Jess Frazelle will be presenting at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon in Berlin on March 30 [3]. [0] https://kubernetes.io https://kubernetes.io [1] https://www.cncf.io https://www.cncf.io [2] https://kubernetes.io/partners/ https://kubernetes.io/partners/ [3] https://cloudnativeeu2017.sched.com/mobile/#person:jess_frazelle.1w8kd0n9;speaker https://cloudnativeeu2017.sched.com/mobile/#person:jess_fraz... Disclosure: I'm the executive director of CNCF.
twotwotwo 10y ago
Other comments saying k8s (short f/kubernetes) people are in various companies are correct, but adding it was started at Google (and that's where jessfraz works on it). Background for k8s is that Google had (has) an internal container scheduler called Borg (https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html) with which they do clever things like pack a CPU-hungry and RAM-hungry process on the same box so all of that machine's resources get used, and can use the same server for a mix of production processes (that might e.g. be latency-sensitive need a dedicated core) and non-production tasks like internal data crunching. For example, a non-production task can run opportunistically when a prod job isn't using its full allocation of RAM, and be preempted if the production tasks need that RAM later or more important tasks come along. Kubernetes is a ground-up effort to do the same sort of thing in the open. The components are different--etcd instead of Chubby, and of course not using Google's internal container stuff for tasks--but idea's the same.

No, but all of the founders (and one of the top k8s guys from redhat) are at a firm based on it now: https://www.heptio.com https://www.heptio.com Jessie is an incredible speaker and a really funny engineer. It was genuinely hard to not laugh watching her talk @ Monitorama last year titled "Everything is Broken": https://vimeo.com/173704265 https://vimeo.com/173704265 Kubernetes is a project started by Google to make managing containers at scale, on premise, or on the cloud, streamlined and dead simple. So far it is "winning".

dankohn1 10y ago
Two of the three Kubernetes co-founders (Joe Beda and Craig Mcluckie) co-founded Heptio. The third (Brendan Burns) left Google for Microsoft, where Kubernetes on Azure reached GA today [0]. [0] http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/caas-the-foundation-for-next-gen-paas.html http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/02/caas-the-foundation-for-ne...
- asadlionpk 10y ago
  I am using k8s on azure container service. It's good! One thing I am unable to do is re-scale the cluster (add more nodes). They don't allow that somehow.
  - dankohn1 10y ago
    That limitation was apparently lifted today. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/kubernetes-on-microsofts-azure-container-service-is-now-generally-available/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/21/kubernetes-on-microsofts-a... "This means the service is now backed by an SLA, and users will be able to get support contracts from Microsoft. Maybe more importantly, though, Microsoft also added two pivotal new features with this update: the ability to easily scale Kubernetes clusters up and down and support for high-availability setups with multiple masters."

dankohn1 10y ago

Kubernetes [0] is an open source project hosted at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) [1]. It has many companies cooperatively developing and commercially supporting it [2]. Also, Jess Frazelle will be presenting at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon in Berlin on March 30 [3]. [0] https://kubernetes.io https://kubernetes.io [1] https://www.cncf.io https://www.cncf.io [2] https://kubernetes.io/partners/ https://kubernetes.io/partners/ [3] https://cloudnativeeu2017.sched.com/mobile/#person:jess_frazelle.1w8kd0n9;speaker https://cloudnativeeu2017.sched.com/mobile/#person:jess_fraz... Disclosure: I'm the executive director of CNCF.

twotwotwo 10y ago

Other comments saying k8s (short f/kubernetes) people are in various companies are correct, but adding it was started at Google (and that's where jessfraz works on it). Background for k8s is that Google had (has) an internal container scheduler called Borg (https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html) with which they do clever things like pack a CPU-hungry and RAM-hungry process on the same box so all of that machine's resources get used, and can use the same server for a mix of production processes (that might e.g. be latency-sensitive need a dedicated core) and non-production tasks like internal data crunching. For example, a non-production task can run opportunistically when a prod job isn't using its full allocation of RAM, and be preempted if the production tasks need that RAM later or more important tasks come along. Kubernetes is a ground-up effort to do the same sort of thing in the open. The components are different--etcd instead of Chubby, and of course not using Google's internal container stuff for tasks--but idea's the same.