How Replicated Evaluated and Built Embedded Cluster with Open Source k0s by Mirantis

In this month's episode, you will hear from Marc Campbell, CTO and Co-Founder of Replicated and his colleague Chris Sanders, Director of Customer Reliability Engineering, as they discuss their company's experience with evaluating various open source Kubernetes Distributions to use when building and launching their new product: Embedded Cluster.

There's a lot of different open source projects and tools out there, but which one is the right one? And is it in your organization's best interest to build your own solution from scratch? Well, Marc and Chris will cover that in their discussion, as well as provide examples from their own experience with evaluating k0s by Mirantis along with other top K8s Distros on the market.

A full list of this episode's topics include:

• Background on Replicated, Embedded Cluster and their other solutions
• Emerging technologies in comparison to Kubernetes
• Replicated's Helm SDK vs Embedded Cluster
• Tips for evaluating open source projects
• Importance of CNCF-certification
• When to build it yourself vs when to leverage existing open source solutions
• Pitfalls and benefits of building it yourself
• Other Distros vs k0s by Mirantis
• Why Replicated chose k0s by Mirantis
• Importance of GitHub community in evaluation process
• How implementation of k0s went for Replicated
• Key takeaways from Replicated's experience

Learn more about k0s by Mirantis at k0sproject.io/

Learn more about Replicated & Embedded Cluster at www.replicated.com/

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Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:04 About Replicated & open source
• 3:47 How has the space changed since Replicated was founded?
• 6:01 Like K8s, do you see other emerging technologies that will have same impact?
• 8:05 Overview of Replicate's Installer products
• 9:12 Open source approach: Helm SDK vs Embedded Cluster on k0s
• 11:57 Bulding vs leveraging open source
• 17:21 How to evaluate open source solutions and tools
• 24:49 What does CNCF-certified actually mean?
• 26:11 When to build vs when to leverage
• 29:33 Importance of k0s being upstream for Embedded Cluster
• 30:34 Pitfalls of building yourself
• 32:16 Benefits of building yourself
• 33:47 Why Replicated chose k0s by Mirantis to build Embedded Cluster
• 39:06 Other Distros evaluated vs k0s by Mirantis
• 43:23 Importance of GitHub community in evaluation process
• 45:23 How did Replicated "vet" k0s before using it to build Embedded Cluster?
• 49:26 Implementing k0s into Embedded Cluster
• 53:38 Key takeaways from Replicated following this process
• 58:53 Outro