Global Distributed Consensus: The Missing Piece in Kubernetes

Early in my time on the Kubernetes team, a customer proposed something that was both brilliant and beyond what we were ready for: a global footprint of clusters, one per region, with a synchronized set of jobs. They were running a low-latency application and wanted to coordinate workloads across continents. The problem was, we hadn't figured out how to do that yet. As an aside, we had an internal project called "Ubernetes" that aimed to solve this, but the complexity of tackling multi-cluster co