How Kubernetes is Built with Kat Cosgrove

The Pragmatic Engineer · May 14, 2025 · 1h 8m · transcript

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Kubernetes is the second-largest open-source project in the world. What does it actually do—and why is it so widely adopted?

In this episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, I’m joined by Kat Cosgrove, who has led several Kubernetes releases. Kat has been contributing to Kubernetes for several years, and originally got involved with the project through K3s (the lightweight Kubernetes distribution).

In our…