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Kelsey Hightower, Kubernetes and Google Cloud

December 16, 2020 • Beyang and Quinn • Season 1 • Episode 16

0:00 | 59:32

As an engineer at Puppet, CoreOS, and Google Cloud, Kelsey Hightower has been at the forefront of new deployment technologies over the past decade. Along the way, he has built tools like confd, created learning resources like Kubernetes The Hard Way, co-founded KubeCon, and taught multitudes of people about containers, infrastructure as code, service meshes, and the operating system of the cloud.

In this conversation, Kelsey talks about how he learns new technologies, shares stories over the course of Kubernetes history, and explains how one might make sense of the varied ecosystem of infrastructure tools ("engineering organizations are like restaurants").

Show notes and transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/kelsey-hightower