Kubernetes: The Platform That Keeps the Internet Running at Scale

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From Supply Chain to Container Orchestration

When IBM acquired Red Hat, I was working as a technical seller trying to position IBM’s data science platform to clients. Our internal team was containerising CPLEX — a powerful optimisation engine used in warehouse management and supply chain applications — and running it on OpenShift.

I had seen CPLEX solve complex scheduling problems in the real world. I understood inputs, equations, constraints, and outputs. But pods? Nodes? Dockerfiles? It felt like a science project. I could not connect what I was seeing on screen to anything that could work in real production.

It took six months of trial, error, and grinding through an OpenShift certification I barely passed to get any footing at all.