icular needs—lent itself to embracing an open source, cloud native strategy for its deep learning infrastructure.</p>

<p>OpenAI started running Kubernetes on top of AWS in 2016, and a year later, migrated the Kubernetes clusters to Azure. "We probably use Kubernetes differently from a lot of people," says Berner. "We use it for batch scheduling and as a workload manager for the cluster. It's a way of coordinating a large number of containers that are all connected together. We rely on our <a href="https: