310: The history of Kubernetes (with Nutanix' Dan Ciruli)
May 27, 2025•18 min
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Episode description
In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:
- What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes
- The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads
- Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers
- The story behind Kubernetes' name and logo
This episode originally aired on 5/8/25 on our sister podcast, Get With IT, where we discuss topics related to ITOps.
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