How do you respond when someone asks:

Is Kubernetes right for us?

Where do you start? Let’s talk about IT modernisation, beginning with the problem that needs to be solved, and exploring any constraints that are obvious.

Gone are the days of contending with dozens of README files just to get the right version of helm and to install a chart with sane defaults.

arkade (ark for short) provides a clean CLI with strongly-typed flags to install charts and apps to your cluster in one command.

Being a leader is tough and leads to burn-out at least once or maybe even a few times. But why? If you’ve been building, leading, or maintaining open source, then this post from Alex Ellis should be on your “to read” list.

In this post I want to introduce the reader to five pressures that I have encountered over the past five years of building, leading, and maintaining Open Source Software (OSS) with community. This essay is primarily about being a leader in Open Source, but I believe it applies outside of technology too.

My aim is to foster understanding and empathy between contributors, community members, users, and maintainers. I would also like for maintainers and leaders in Open Source to feel a sense of solidarity in their shared burden.

We’re talking with Alex Ellis, the founder of OpenFaaS — serverless functions made simple for Docker and Kubernetes. We talked about the back story and details of OpenFaaS, “the curious case of serverless on Kubernetes,” the landscape of open source serverless platforms, how Alex is leading and building this community, getting involved, and maintainership vs leadership.