Ground Zero: Open Source Conference North America 2015 On July 2, 2015, in a packed room at OSCON, we cut the ribbon on Kubernetes 1.0 . I was the first PM who didn't sign the founding doc, yet I got the privilege of wiring the detonator that became Google Kubernetes Engine (née "Container Engine"). The last decade of distributed computing unfolded from that single push to GitHub. As an aside, we kept deploying WordPress all the time. I'll never understand why we thought that was the killer scenario. But we did. Actually, the first killer scenario was the scale-up for Pokémon GO. Here I am talking about it just a few weeks later. Success, in Four Bullet Points Looking back, four early choices carried Kubernetes from "interesting side project running on Brendan Burns' laptop and a go project named 'Seven'" to the default substrate of cloud-native computing. Portability What We Did: Write once, run anywhere … actually anywhere.…