Open Source Spotlight: Kubernetes
By BIOS Founding Team
Kubernetes originated at Google, drawing on lessons from their internal cluster management systems, and was open sourced in 2014. It was later donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which now governs it alongside a huge ecosystem of related projects.
Its job is to automate deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications, deciding where containers run, restarting them when they fail, and scaling them up or down based on demand, across a cluster of machines.
For BIOS members in cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, Kubernetes is close to unavoidable at this point, most large-scale cloud-native systems run on it or something built on top of it.
The CNCF ecosystem around Kubernetes (Helm, Prometheus, Envoy, and dozens of other projects) offers a huge surface area for contribution beyond the core project itself, documentation, tooling, and smaller CNCF projects are often more approachable starting points than the Kubernetes core codebase.
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