Chris Kühl is the CEO & Co-founder at Kinvolk.io. Kinvolk's mission is to ensure that enterprises can run a fully-supported open-source cloud-native technology stack. Products such as Flatcar linux Chris' engineering experience is broad: systems, web, Android & application development. He’s passionate about building and working with great engineering teams. He also speaks German, which can be very helpful in a Germany-based company. Chris' and I talk about his journey and how he and the team at Kinvolk saved CoreOS Container Linux from End of Life and made it even better with Flatcar Linux among their other products. Kinvolk.io are truly what Open Source stewardship is all about.

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*Timestamp/Topic  *
00:00 - Opener 
00:11 - Sponsor Message -- Giant Swarm - https://swarm.ly/2DGRXGo
00:50 - Intro to Chris Kühl and his journey 
11:32 - Lets talk about Kinvolk the company 
13:42 - Flatcar Linux - its advantages and what it does 
19:19 - Lokomotive Kubernetes 
27:07 - Cloud_Native Rejekts conference - the origins and the mission 
29:24 - All Systems Go 
32:07 - What work is Chris most proud of?

*Episode Links *
Kinvolk - kinvolk.io/pop 
Flatcar Linux - https://kinvolk.io/flatcar-container-linux/
Lokomotive Kubernetes - https://kinvolk.io/lokomotive-kubernetes/
Deeper dive from the founders at Kinvolk.io on Flatcar and Lokomotive - https://youtu.be/pffTghceW0Y
Cloud Native Rejekts - https://cloud-native.rejekts.io/
All Systems Go - https://all-systems-go.io/

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