EP #3: Cloud, Kubernetes, and the Evolution of DevOps - The Open Source Observability Podcast
Kris Buytaert is the Co-founder of Inuits, O11y, and ‘DevOps Days,’ an internationally-attended series of DevOps events. He is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software, and is accredited by the community as being a founding instigator of the DevOps movement.
In this episode we trace the history of the DevOps movement from its intersection with open source and Agile, through the evolution of Cloud technologies and tools such Docker and Kubernetes, to present day best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
Dive in to learn what DevOps is, how to adopt it effectively at your organization, how developers can master scrum, what development framework to use, how to avoid ‘merge hell,’ and why the most important DevOps tool of all is beer.
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Timestamps:
00:00 The History of DevOpsDays and the DevOps Movement
06:00 What Does DevOps Mean?
07:00 Best DevOps Tools: Beer & Sushi
10:19 Management Tips: Do You Want Bureaucrats or Engineers?
12:12 How Cloud Technologies Have Evolved (And When Should SMBs Migrate)
15:06 RevolutionOS: The Community that Started the Internet
18:30 What is CI/CD?
19:15 "Merge Hell" and the case for Turn-Based Development
21:10 CI/CD Best Practices: Enterprise vs. Open Source Communities
25:34 Agile vs Waterfall (Spoiler: Rosencrantz and Waterfall Are Dead)
29:00 ‘DevOp’ is like ‘HTTP’: Without the ‘s’ It’s Insecure
30:19 Scrum Certifications & Digital Paperweights
32:49 Observability vs. Monitoring
35:56 What is IaaC?
39:38 How Kris fell in love with Coroot
43:00 What Is An Observability Anti-Pattern? (With Examples)
45:35: Why Is ‘Everything a Freaking DNS Problem’
49:46: A Brief History of Time: From Vagrant to Kubernetes
53:45 Upcoming events where you can meet Kris
Have an open source observability project or developer you would like us to cover next? Send Alex an email: https://coroot.com/contact/
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🔗Join Kris at CfgMgmtCamp Ghent 2026 (Feb. 2 - 4): https://registration.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent/2026/
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