Valuable Lessons in Over-Engineering the Core of Kubernetes Kops

Explore valuable lessons learned from over-engineering the core of Kubernetes kops in this 25-minute conference talk. Discover the journey of refactoring kops' core, moving away from complexity, abstraction, and template parsing towards clean, simple, and explicit Go code. Learn about Kubernetes, its functionality, and the development cycle of kops. Understand the challenges faced, the changes implemented, and the components removed during the refactoring process.

Introduction
What is Kubernetes
How does Kubernetes work
Parse tasks
Development cycle
The Beast
What did we do
What was removed