Wait, people run Kubernetes on mainframes? Yes, they do! Check out Elizabeth's 2019 KubeCon talk on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgyb_9zCaeA

Elizabeth K. Joseph

After spending a decade doing Linux systems administration, today Elizabeth K. Joseph works as a developer advocate at IBM focused on IBM Z.

As a systems administrator, she worked for a small services provider in Philadelphia before joining HPE where she worked for four years on the geographically distributed OpenStack Infrastructure team. This team runs the fully open source infrastructure for OpenStack development and lead to an interest in other open source projects that have opened up their infrastructures. While working on OpenStack she wrote the book Common OpenStack Deployments.

She is a former member of the Ubuntu Community Council and the co-author of the 8th and 9th editions of The Official Ubuntu Book. At home, she serves on Board of Directors for Partimus.org, a non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools and education-focused community centers in need.

Holger Wolf

Holger started his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard (HP) and then spent nearly 3 decades (!) working for IBM. Currently, he's e2e responsible for OpenShift on the IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms. Working closely with RedHat on getting OpenShift versions out and on new enhancements and functions.

Prior to that, Holger was responsible for System Tests of Linux Distributions on IBM zSystems and LinuxONE Platforms. Worked with Partners SUSE and RedHat to get their Enterprise Distributions on the IBM Platform. Led the test teams in Russia and the USA, with technical ownership of the test setup as well as driving test automation.

He started to take ownership of OpenShift on IBM zSystems (now IBM Z) and LinuxONE. Setting up the effort for getting OpenShift on the Platform and interlocking with RedHat.

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#029 - Kubernetes for Humans Podcast with Elizabeth K. Joseph & Holger Wolf (IBM)