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24:55 · 527K views · Jan 21, 2022
The official Kubernetes documentary, part 1, tells how a handful of Google engineers, inspired by Docker's success, built a container orchestrator. It covers the internal resistance to open source and the competition of the container orchestrator wars.
Cited for the history of why containers and Kubernetes took off, though one thread critiqued the documentary itself.
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Fascinating documentary on Kubernetes for those who have 50 minutes. Gives more background to the "Container Wars". The filmmakers also have documentaries on the history of Python, Argo, etc. Some highlights: - How far behind Kubernetes was at the time of launch. Docker Swarm was significantly more simple to use, and Apache Mesos scheduler could already handle 10,000 nodes (and was being used by Netflix). - RedHat's early contributions were key, despite having the semi-competing project of OpenShift. - The decision to Open Source K8S came down to one meeting brief meeting at Google. Many of the senior engineers attended remotely from Seattle, not bothering to fly out because they thought their request to go OS was going to get shutdown. - Brief part at the end where Kelsey Hightower talks about what he thinks might come after Kubernetes. He mentions, and I thought this was very interesting ... Serverless making a return. It really seemed like Serverless would be "the thing" in 2016-2017 but containers were too powerful. Maybe now with KNative or some future fusing of Container Orchestration + K8S? [1] - this video
> Google Search Unusable nowadays and monopoly that should be broken.... > Google’s open-source MapReduce paper that shaped the big data industry. Experienced ETL practitioners laughed at that paper, knowing that was how DataStage and other Grid ETL platforms always worked. Imagine...spliting the data across nodes, working on it in parallel and then bringing it together...Oh my if was not for Google nobody would have thought about it... > Then came containerization, then Google’s Kubernetes. A platform full of security bugs, that they created because they lost the cloud wars: Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1] - this video [LINK] They forgot about multitenancy, and 11 years after, they still dont have it.... > entire cloud computing industry seems to be based on Kubernetes, and our entire team develops on top of it. Your team needs to go out more....
Slightly biased? This is the way they present the extract of the dotScale conference in this K8s documentary: this video And the source media: [LINK] They've altered the quality of the audio and video to make it look old. They even cropped it to 4:3! This is preposterous.
Anybody who watched "Kubernetes: The Documentary" knows the answer: this video Kubernetes only exists, because Google lost the Cloud Wars, and this was their Hail Mary pass.