About this episode

The episode explores the evolution of open source software and its impact on cloud computing.

Send a text Ever wonder how free software ended up running the world’s biggest clouds? We pull on a thread that starts with the hacker ethos—access, transparency, community—and follows it through OSCON memories, Docker’s breakout moment, and the quiet power shift that came with Kubernetes. From early research culture to the realities of running production systems, we map how open source moved from ideal to infrastructure and why today’s cloud thrives on community-built code. We look at why D...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jon Gallagher, Logan Gallagher

Topics covered

• open source
• cloud computing
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• hacker ethos
• community-built code
• infrastructure

Keywords

• open source
• cloud
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• hacker ethos
• community
• infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kubernetes, Docker, OSCON

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