For a technology of such consequence, Kubernetes is remarkably little discussed outside the trade. It has no consumer face, no logo anyone would recognise, no charismatic founder-billionaire. It is plumbing. But plumbing is where the interesting economics usually hide, and the story of how a piece of infrastructure software escaped from Google, defeated better-funded rivals, and became a de facto standard is a case study in how technical architecture, corporate strategy and o

This August, the Network Theory Applied Research Institute welcomed a wave of new volunteers into the first annual Community Orchestration Software Development Sprint (COSDS)