Henning Sternkicker is working in the area of Software Development tooling since 2000, beginning with Software Configuration and Change Management within in Rational Software Corporation. He joined IBM with the acquisition of Rational and extended his expertise to Software Lifecycle Management and DevOps Tooling throughout the years. Since 2014 he is now focussing on IBM’s Cloud portfolio, with a special highlight on Container technology and Container orchestration based on Kubernetes. As a technical presales and consultant he is talking on conferences and trade fairs on topics like building private clouds and managing the challenges of DevOps.