Ten years ago, a strange little open-source project sailed out of Google’s harbor with a Greek name nobody could pronounce and a logo that looks suspiciously like a ship’s wheel. A decade later, it runs half the internet, has spawned its own galaxy of CNCF projects, and still manages to make seasoned engineers cry at 3 AM.
Climb aboard for a not-so-serious journey through Kubernetes’ first ten years: the wild early days of kubectl apply and praying, the YAML-induced traumas, the great service mesh wars, the rise (and rise, and rise) of operators, and every “this will replace Kubernetes” headline that aged like warm milk.
Expect war stories, questionable design decisions (ours and theirs), a few legends from the CNCF landscape, and probably some opinions about Helm. No slides full of architecture diagrams, just a friendly chat between sailors who survived the storm.
Cake will be served. Containers will be discussed. Pods may or may not be evicted.
Bring your sense of humor and your favorite kubectl horror story

Ahoy DevOps friends, I invite you to celebrate my 10th birthday :) Let’s have a chat on my ship, I’ll bring cake and containers.