Kubernetes at 10: Reflections and a Vision for the Future

This article reflects on the ten-year journey of Kubernetes, from its origins as Google's internal Borg system to its current status as a cornerstone of the cloud-native era. The author praises its successes in container orchestration, infrastructure management, and job scheduling, but also highlights shortcomings: YAML's limitations, etcd dependency, and Helm's package manager deficiencies. Proposals for Kubernetes 2.0 include replacing YAML with HCL, supporting alternative backends to etcd, and creating a native package manager for improved usability and security. Further suggestions involve defaulting to IPv6 and built-in IPSec for simplified network topology.