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> Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns returns to the Dev Interrupted podcast to tell the creation story of Kubernetes and why it had to be open source.

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Co-Founding Kubernetes with Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns

# Co-Founding Kubernetes with Microsoft CVP Brendan Burns

By Brendan Burns

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September 1, 2021

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The creation of Kubernetes was never a foregone conclusion, it required years of hard work and evangelism. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brendan Burns is here to bring you that story.

In the final episode of our two-part series, Brendan returns to the Dev Interrupted podcast to bring us the founding story of Kubernetes. He discusses the battle to make Kubernetes open source, why a strong community was vital to early success and learning when to let others take the lead, avoiding a "dictator for life" approach to development.

### Episode Highlights Include:

* How Kubernetes came to be
* Why Kubernetes had to be open source
* Avoiding a "dictator for life" approach to development
* Improving developer experience for distributed systems
* How to build and sustain communities

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