Kelsey Hightower

All in on Kubernetes.

Fleet, deprecate it.

All these things that we're building, deprecate it.

We're going to go all in.

And I'm glad we did because Alice Povey came up with the name Operators, which is like a core idea in the Kubernetes community.

We put all this effort in there.

Me and another guy worked on a thing called CNI, which is the networking layer for Kubernetes.

And

What Kubernetes really meant for me was that previous 15 years of experience as a practitioner in the data center, learning promise theory, learning Puppet, where it works well, where it doesn't, and then understanding that Puppet wasn't the only way, and then going through all of these loops.

And so when I ended at Kubernetes, it felt like

This would be the thing I would build if I only knew how.

And that's the way I explained it to the rest of the world.

And at that GopherCon, maybe the next one, there were people from the now early Kubernetes communities, a small company called Kismatic.

They were kind of a CoreOS competitor to some degree, but they came up with the idea like we should have a conference just like GopherCon.

We called it CoopCon.

Joseph got the logo going and the Kismatic team kind of put up the money for the first event.

And we really welcomed the entire community.

And now it's been 12 years later and the CNCF has done a fabulous job of keeping it going.

Now there's like, what, 13,000 people here in Amsterdam keeping that thing going.

I think the number one success criteria was Docker.