We've had a lot of discussion on what containers are and how they work, but not a lot on how they're often deployed in production environments. Kubernetes is a popular open source project that aids in orchestrating containers. Kubernetes is complex, however, you'll leave with a good understanding of how it works and when to leverage it for your own workloads.

We'll start with an overview of how we got from containers to orchestration. From there we'll cover architecture of Kubernetes, how it works, and deploy an application to Kubernetes.

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About the Presenter

Nigel is a Developer Advocate for IBM Cloud based in New York City. Originally from South Carolina, he was drawn to craft of software engineering because of the agency it provides to create and interact with worlds of his own creation. His passions in technology are community building, High Performance Computing, and free and open-source software (and hardware). His current favorite project is Alexandra Sunderland's SMS Internet (https://dev.to/twilio/using-twilio-to-build-the-internet-2cnf) due to the incredible problem solving involved.

You can follow him on GitHub at the handle @pnbrown

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A Developer's Introduction to Kubernetes