A Very Happy Birthday Kubernetes
Last year at OSCON, I got to reconnect with a bunch of friends and see what they have been working on. That turned out to be the Kubernetes 1.0 launch event. Even that day, it was clear the project was supported by a broad community -- a group that showed an ambitious vision for distributed computing.
Today, on the first anniversary of the Kubernetes 1.0 launch, it’s amazing to see what a community of dedicated individuals can do. Kubernauts have collectively put in
The community is also more than online GitHub and Slack conversation; year one saw the launch of KubeCon, the Kubernetes user conference, which started as a grassroot effort that brought together 1,000 individuals between two events in San Francisco and London. The advocacy continues with users globally. There are more than #k8sbday parties worldwide: . The Kubernetes community continues to work to make our project more welcoming and open to our kollaborators. This spring, Kubernetes and KubeCon moved to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (
-- Sarah Novotny, Kubernetes Community Wonk