Kubernetes Past/Present/Future

Abstract: Modern applications are increasingly built using containers, which are microservices packaged with their dependencies and configurations. Keeping containerized apps up and running can be complex because they often involve many containers deployed across different machines. Kubernetes provides a way to schedule, deploy, manage, and scale containers. Kubernetes orchestrates clusters of virtual machines and schedules containers to run on those virtual machines based on their available compute resources and the resource requirements of each container.   

Over the last eight years, the Kubernetes open source project has transformed the way that cloud computing spans the globe. This talk will cover the motives and origins of Kubernetes, its growth to its present day mass-adoption, and sketch out the areas still left to accomplish.

Biography: Brendan Burns is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, and is responsible for the management APIs for Azure and Azure management at scale including policy, access control and continuous deployment. He is also responsible for cloud native compute on Azure including Linux on Azure, Kubernetes on Azure and Service Fabric, open source compute on Azure including Kubernetes and Linux, and responsible for SAP on Azure.

Prior to Microsoft Brendan worked on the Google Cloud Platform for 4 years where he was a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project, as well as the Google Container Engine, Google Cloud DNS and Google Config Manager projects. Prior to working on Google Cloud, Brendan worked on Google's web search infrastructure for four years. Before that Brendan was a professor of Computer Science at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Brendan has a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College. He also received a PhD in Computer Science with a specialty in Robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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