Kelsey Hightower

And so when that came out, it's like, so if I wanted to manage, let's say, a firewall,

Like, yeah, you can describe a firewall and you give that to Kubernetes and all the tooling works.

You can now say kubectl apply a firewall.

And so now we got tools like cert management, where if you want a certificate from Let's Encrypt, you can just say what domain you want, where it should live, give it to it.

And now you had a first class extension.

You didn't have to uninstall it.

You have to make some magical binary.

And it really didn't matter what language you want it.

Because once you put the data model in place, you've got the machinery.

And if you like Python, you can have Python run in a loop, grab the data, and then make it so.

If Bash was your thing, you can literally pull the config using a Bash script and make it so and just update the status field.

That opened up the entire ecosystem.

So Cisco could come in, do what they wanted to do.

Red Hat can come in, open shift, and do what they wanted to do.

To me, that was the game changer that brought the rest of the community in.

No.

So by that time, I'm at CoreOS.

Kubernetes has definitely taken off.

I'm giving lots of keynotes.

Now everyone wants to know my opinion.