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Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes: Lessons learned from three container-management systems over a decade

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Though widespread interest in software containers is a relatively recent phenomenon, at Google we have been managing Linux containers at scale for more than ten years and built three different container-management systems in that time. Each system was heavily influenced by its predecessors, even though they were developed for different reasons. This article describes the lessons we’ve learned from developing and operating them.

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    Queue  Volume 14, Issue 1
    Containers
    January-February 2016
    119 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/2898442
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