Creating Kubernetes distributions

Making a comparison between Linux and Kubernetes is often one of apples to oranges. There are, however, some similarities and there is an effort within the Kubernetes community to make Kubernetes more like a Linux distribution. The idea was outlined in a session about Kubernetes release engineering at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019. “You might have heard that Kubernetes is the Linux of the cloud and that’s like super easy to say, but what does it mean? Cloud is pretty fuzzy on its own,” Tim Pepper, the Kubernetes release special interest group (SIG Release) co-chair said. He proceeded to provide some clarity on how the two projects are similar.