Keynote: The Kubernetes Community

Kubernetes has emerged as a leading container management platform not just because of its technical capabilities, but also because of the tremendous open-source community that has powered its development. How did Kubernetes reach the top 0.01% of all Github projects based on stars analysis? In this talk, we will describe how the Kubernetes community organizes and runs the project, and some of the principles that the community has learned over its 2.5 years of rapid growth have been critical to its success.

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1. The Kubernetes
   community
   

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2. ● “Container Orchestration”
   ○ Container-centric infrastructure
   ● Inspired by Google’s internal systems and
   experience managing containers
   ● Runs Anywhere
   ● Open sourced in 2014
   ● Created CNCF to host Kubernetes and an
   ecosystem of cloud-native infrastructure
   What is Kubernetes
   

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3. 1.0
   1.1
   1.2
   1.3
   1.4
   1.5
   >442
   Years of
   Effort*
   Velocity
   *Source: COCOMO Model
   *Source: COCOMO Model
   

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4. 1,500+
   15
   Time zones
   Contributors
   Community growth
   *Sources: Analyzing GitHub issues and comments with
   BigQuery https://cncf.biterg.io/app/kibana#/dashboard
   

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5. Before 1.0 GA Between 1.0 - 1.5
   Community Composition
   

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6. Usage
   SO posts, blogs,
   meetups...
   Awareness Use Cases
   Tools, libraries,
   extensions...
   Users Developers
   Vendors
   Solutions
   Gaps Dozens of
   Products with
   Kubernetes
   Support
   20k+
   GitHub Stars
   4,000+
   Projects Based
   on Kubernetes
   200+
   Meetup Groups
   Worldwide
   Open engagement
   

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7. Contributors
   And users
   Kubernetes community
   

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8. Costs and challenges
   ● Time-consuming
   ● 24/7
   ● Tools haven’t scaled
   ● Can be a drag on velocity
   ● Tragedy of the commons
   

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9. Inclusion
   Cross-organizational teams
   Transparency
   Ownership
   Learning together
   What makes it work?
   

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10. Weaveworks,
    CoreOS, Heptio,
    Google,
    Independents,
    Others...
    Simpler install
    RedHat, Deis, IBM,
    Google,
    Independents,
    Others...
    Service broker
    Cluster life cycle Service Catalog
    Special Interest Groups (SIG)
    

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11. Federation
    Auth Autoscaling Cluster Ops
    Contributor
    Experience
    Cluster life cycle Service Catalog
    Apps Instrumentation
    AWS
    API Machinery
    Docs Scalability Network Node
    OpenStack rktnetes Scheduling UI Storage
    Testing Windows On Prem ?
    Special Interest Groups (SIG)
    

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12. GitHub Issues
    and Proposals
    Transparency
    

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13. Community
    Meetings
    Burndown
    Meetings
    Roadmap
    process
    GitHub Issues
    and Proposals
    Transparency
    

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14. Semi-annual
    unconference
    with SIGS
    1.6 1.8
    1.7 1.9
    Features repo
    PM Group
    Release team
    launch
    ● Themes
    ● Priorities
    ● Top down plan
    ● Feature freeze 2 weeks
    into release
    ● Issue approval, Labels
    ● Backlog & Visibility
    ● Release notes, docs
    ● PR, Blogs
    Roadmap
    

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15. Product
    Manager
    Release
    Manager
    SIG
    Leader
    Contributor
    Ownership
    

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16. Ownership
    Reviewers
    Owners
    Approvers
    Members
    

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17. Retrospective
    We learn together
    

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18. User feedback
    “The Kubernetes community has been an absolutely
    phenomenal model for true open source collaboration.
    We've been continually impressed with how transparent and
    open the entire design and development process has been,
    and it's been a huge vote of confidence for our continuing
    investment in the project
    Kubernetes is a production-ready platform that we look
    forward to building on for years to come”
    -- Sam Ghods, co-founder, Box
    “We’re already seeing tremendous benefits with
    Kubernetes — improved engineering productivity, faster
    delivery of applications and a simplified infrastructure.
    But this is just the beginning. Kubernetes will help
    transform the way that educational content is delivered
    online”
    -- Chris Jackson,
    Director for Cloud Product Engineering, Pearson
    

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19. User feedback
    How important is the use of open source software to your organization?
    (Percent of respondents, N=214)
    Moderately important, 26% Very important, 33%
    Critical, 16%
    Slightly important, 11%
    Not at all important, 12%
    Don’t know, 2%
    *ESG survey 2017
    

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20. *Question asked to respondents reporting the use of open source software is at least moderately important to their organization
    User feedback
    What benefits drive the importance of open source software for your organization?
    (Percent of respondents, N=161* multiple responses accepted)
    Easier to customize than proprietary software
    Lower barrier to entry/access to trial via free versions
    Faster rate of innovation/frequent releases
    Eliminates lock-in associated with proprietary software
    Reduced CapEx
    Reduced OpEx
    Improved quality/capabilities achieved with broad community of contributors
    Improved security achieved with transparent, auditable codebase
    40%
    36%
    34%
    32%
    30%
    24%
    24%
    20%
    *ESG survey 2017
    

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21. Confidential & Proprietary
    Google Cloud Platform 21
    Join Us! github.com/kubernetes
    

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