Rancher Labs, with Darren Shepherd

Jun 11, 2019

Darren Shepherd builds the Cloud at Rancher Labs, a company making entirely open source Kubernetes tooling, from the enterprise to the edge. This week Craig and Adam will finally learn how to pronounce ‘k3s’ and ‘k3OS’.

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Chatter of the week

• Day of the Tentacle at The Digital Antiquarian
  • Remastered, on sale at gog.com
• Vigil Files (Android)

News of the week

• Reflections on the Fifth Anniversary of Kubernetes
  • Happy birthday from Mum and Dad
  • I’m Tim Hockin, a top level Kubernetes maintainer. AMA!
• Orka, from MacStadium
  • Introductory video from AltConf
• Five enterprise takeaways from KubeCon EU by Platform9: number 4, the SOA Tikka Masala, will shock you
• 11 salary statistics for Kubernetes jobs from The Enterpriser’s Project
  • Want to work for Google? E-mail us!

Links from the interview

• Rancher Labs
  • Series A announcement, pre-Kubernetes
  • Original Rancher 1.x beta annoucement
  • Rancher 2.0 announcement
• RKE
• Longhorn
  • OpenEBS used to be based on Longhorn
• Darren’s Rancher shirt
• k3s - “Lightweight Kubernetes. 5 less than k8s.”
  • How do you pronounce the “k3s”?
• k3OS
  • RancherOS
    • Huevos rancheros
  • k3d
  • The Kaiser Chiefs
• Rio
  • Announcement
  • Knative
  • Knative build templates
  • Dancing on the sand
• Darren Shepherd on Twitter