The concept of entropy is a measure of disorderliness or chaos. The second law of Thermodynamics states that the Universe evolves spontaneously towards more chaotic states, eventually to “the Heat Death”. Kubernetes started off as a container orchestrator for stateless web apps. But now, what once was an orderly list of use-cases, has become a turbulent sea of possibility and complexity. This is also the case for the CNCF Landscape as a whole.

With novel use cases in e.g. AI, cloud native will also need to evolve, increasing entropy. However, as we navigate these possibilities with Kubernetes at the base, it is critical that we talk about some of the philosophies and early decisions of the project, as well as how they have fared with an evolving industry. In doing so, we understand what we can rely on it for and what we can’t.

Continuing from Tim Hockin’s keynote, join us as we talk about the physics of cloud native and how our community can deal with unseen use cases and scale.