Led by community members Guillaume Blaquiere (
Introduced in February 2021, Autopilot is the latest major feature on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). It offers a new way to use, consume, and deploy a Kubernetes cluster where the nodes, master, and pool, are fully managed by Google.
Some key moments from this discussion include:
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The difference between Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (04:05)
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Defining Autopilot and Google’s vision for this new feature (6:35)
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How Autopilot stacks up against other container technologies (12:15)
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What makes a “cloud native” company (22:00)
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Getting started with Autopilot and pricing models (27:30)
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GKE Autopilot versus Borg (41:25)
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Web browsers and standardization at Google (49:40)