How Kubernetes’ Founder is Building an Un-Distribution at Heptio

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 14, 2018

Joe Beda, helped to start the open source Kubernetes container orchestration project in June 2014, publishing the first code commit for the project. Over the last four years a lot has changed, Kubernetes is now one of the most talked about infrastructure paradigms and Beda is no longer at Google, Joe Bedahe’s at a startup he co-founded, called Heptio.

In a video interview, Beda explains how Heptio has developed what the company refers to as a “un-distribution” of Kubernetes, in addition to a series of different open source efforts. Among the project launched by Heptio are the Contour load balancing project, Ark recovery, Sonobuoy diagnostics and Ksonnet.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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