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Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg

October 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

True to its name, Google’s famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications that run atop them at the search engine and now cloud computing giant. …

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Google Wants Kubernetes To Rule The World

November 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

At some point, all of the big public cloud providers will have to eat their own dog food, as the parlance goes, and run their applications atop the cloudy version of their infrastructure that they sell to other people, not distinct and sometimes legacy systems that predate the ascent of their clouds. …

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A Decade Of Container Control At Google

March 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

Search engine giant Google did not invent software containers for operating systems, but it has helped perfect them for the Linux operating system and brought the orchestration of billions of containers across perhaps millions of servers to something of an art form. …

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What Makes Containers At Scale So Difficult

September 29, 2015 Michael Hausenblas 0

As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …

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