#133 Kubernetes everywhere: how far can it really go?

About this episode

Ronald and Jan discuss the evolution of Portainer and the potential of lightweight Kubernetes distributions.

In this episode, Ronald and Jan talk with Neil Cresswell, CEO, CTO, and co-founder of Portainer. Neil shares how Portainer started as a simple Docker UI and evolved into a platform for managing Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes environments at scale. A key topic in this episode is Kube Solo, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that can run on roughly 200 MB of RAM. The goal is to make Kubernetes usable in environments where traditional clusters are too heavy, such as IoT, edge, and far edge us...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ronald Kers, Jan Stomphorst

Guest: Neil Cresswell

Topics covered

• Kubernetes
• Portainer
• IoT
• edge computing
• lightweight distributions

Keywords

• Kubernetes
• Portainer
• Kube Solo
• Docker
• Podman
• IoT
• edge computing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Portainer

Products: Kube Solo, Docker, Podman

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