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Episode 34 - How did Rancher and K3s Happen with Darren Shepherd
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:34:46
Publish Date: 2020-09-16 13:08:59
Description:

Darren's Official Bio Darren is a co-founder and Chief Architect of Rancher Labs. Prior to Rancher, Darren was Sr. Principal Engineer at Citrix where he worked on CloudStack, OpenStack, Docker and building the next generation of infrastructure orchestration technology. Prior to joining Citrix, Darren worked at GoDaddy, where he designed and lead a team that implemented both public and private IaaS clouds. Darren has been writing software since he got his first 286 when he was 10, and is happiest when he’s stuffed in a closet banging away in anything but Java. Darren specializes in building systems to reliably control completely unreliable systems. Darren has a B.S. from California State University, Northridge.

 In this episode we delve into his history, Ranchers products (from Rancher 1.0 to K3s) to his tweets and his thoughts on Linux desktops, pure joy talking about his journey with him. Darren is an iconoclast, he says what he thinks and 99 percent of the time he's right. big fan of Darren and im sure you will love this as well! 

Timestamp/Topic 
0:00 - Opener 
0:44 - Darren's Journey (Co-founding Rancher) 
06:54 - Evolving Rancher 1.0 (Docker based) to Rancher 2.0 (Kubernetes) 
12:10 - K3S 19:45 - K3s acceptance as a CNCF sandbox project 
20:54 - SUSE acquires Rancher 
24:10 -Darren's Tweets are legendary 
33:21 - What work is Darren most proud of 

Episode Links 
Rancher - www.rancher.com 
k3s - https://k3s.io/ k3sup- https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup 
Advanced Persistence Threats: The Future of Kubernetes Attacks - Ian Coldwater & Brad Geesaman 


Darrens Twitter - https://twitter.com/ibuildthecloud 

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