Kubernetes: From Borg to Platform Engineering
An 8-episode series on the complete history of Kubernetes — from Google’s internal Borg system in 2003 through the platform engineering era of 2025 and beyond.
Who it’s for: Infrastructure engineers, DevOps practitioners, and platform teams who want to understand how Kubernetes evolved, why design decisions were made the way they were, and where the platform is headed.
By the end: understand every major architectural shift in Kubernetes history, from the CNCF donation through dockershim removal, eBPF integration, and the rise of GitOps and AI workloads.
Series complete — all 8 episodes published.
Episodes
| EP | Title | Era | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| EP01 | The Borg Legacy: How Google Built the Blueprint for Kubernetes (2003–2014) | Pre-release | Published |
| EP02 | The Container Wars: Kubernetes 1.0, CNCF, and the Fight for Orchestration (2014–2016) | v1.0–v1.5 | Published |
| EP03 | Enterprise Awakening: RBAC, CRDs, Cloud Providers, and Helm Goes Mainstream (2016–2018) | v1.6–v1.10 | Published |
| EP04 | The Operator Era: Stateful Workloads, Service Mesh, and the Cloud-Native Stack (2018–2020) | v1.11–v1.18 | Published |
| EP05 | Security Hardens: Supply Chain, Pod Security, and the API Cleanup (2020–2022) | v1.19–v1.23 | Published |
| EP06 | The Runtime Reckoning: Dockershim Out, eBPF In, and PSP Finally Dies (2022–2023) | v1.24–v1.27 | Published |
| EP07 | The Platform Engineering Era: GitOps, AI Workloads, and Leaner Kubernetes (2023–2025) | v1.28–v1.32 | Published |
| EP08 | Kubernetes Today: v1.33 to v1.35, In-Place Resize GA, and What Comes Next | v1.33–v1.35+ | Published |