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Chris Kühl is the CEO & Co-founder at Kinvolk.io. Kinvolk's mission is to ensure that enterprises can run a fully-supported open-source cloud-native technology stack. Products such as Flatcar linux Chris' engineering experience is broad: systems, web, Android & application development. He’s passionate about building and working with great engineering teams. He also speaks German, which can be very helpful in a Germany-based company. Chris' and I talk about his journey and how he and the team at Kinvolk saved CoreOS Container Linux from End of Life and made it even better with Flatcar Linux among their other products. Kinvolk.io are truly what Open Source stewardship is all about.  *SPONSOR LINK (GIANT SWARM) *Today's Episode is sponsored by Giant Swarm, Giant Swarm is a veteran in the cloud-native space. adidas, Vodafone, and Shutterstock all rely on Giant Swarm to operate and evolve their infrastructure while having their backs covered. Dev teams thereby completely focus on their applications while platform teams build out the automation to make them highly efficient. So why waste time and energy on building, maintaining, and operating Kubernetes if you could create more value in accelerating your journey to cloud-native? Reach out to Giant Swarm and learn what you can do differently. [Check out GIANT SWARM here: https://swarm.ly/2DGRXGo] *Timestamp/Topic * 00:00 - Opener 00:11 - Sponsor Message -- Giant Swarm - https://swarm.ly/2DGRXGo 00:50 - Intro to Chris Kühl and his journey 11:32 - Lets talk about Kinvolk the company 13:42 - Flatcar Linux - its advantages and what it does 19:19 - Lokomotive Kubernetes 27:07 - Cloud_Native Rejekts conference - the origins and the mission 29:24 - All Systems Go 32:07 - What work is Chris most proud of? *Episode Links * Kinvolk - kinvolk.io/pop Flatcar Linux - https://kinvolk.io/flatcar-container-linux/ Lokomotive Kubernetes - https://kinvolk.io/lokomotive-kubernetes/ Deeper dive from the founders at Kinvolk.io on Flatcar and Lokomotive - https://youtu.be/pffTghceW0Y Cloud Native Rejekts - https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/ All Systems Go - https://all-systems-go.io/ *Show Links * Watch (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/c/thepopcastpop Listen (Apple PODCAST and others): http://popcast-d9f7b6dc.simplecast.com Follow us on (Twitter): https://twitter.com/PopcastPop Follow us on (Linkedin): https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-popcast-with-danpop |