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An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform

by proppy on 6/10/14, 5:18 PM with 33 comments

• by jbeda on 6/10/14, 5:30 PM

  We are particularly excited about Kubernetes. We are taking the ideas for how we do cluster management at Google and creating an open source project to manage Docker containers.

  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

• by michaelmior on 6/10/14, 7:36 PM

  "Everything at Google, from Search to Gmail, is packaged and run in a Linux container." Was this something which Google had previously disclosed? Seems a bit surprising to me.

• by planckscnst on 6/10/14, 6:31 PM

  This post was written by Eric Brewer, the author of CAP theorem.

• by PanMan on 6/10/14, 8:18 PM

  I know Google runs at a huge scale, but isn't even for them 2 billion containers / week a LOT? I assume a lot of these only run for a really short time? Are containers the new scripts?