310: The history of Kubernetes (with Nutanix' Dan Ciruli)

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Ciruli, senior director of product management at Nutanix (and ex-Googler), about the history of Kubernetes. They discuss:

• What was going on at Google that led to the creation of Kubernetes
• The importance of getting the industry to agree on a non-vendor-specific way of deploying workloads
• Initial concerns from VM vendors about being replaced by containers
• The story behind Kubernetes' name and logo

This episode originally aired on 5/8/25 on our sister podcast, Get With IT, where we discuss topics related to ITOps.