We actually started work on Kubernetes back in 2013, and Kubernetes was based fairly directly on R&D that was done over the few years leading up to that. Of course, there were precursors farther back, including Linux Containers, Borg, Workqueue, and Babysitter, but I’m going to focus on efforts I was directly involved with. Five years ago I wrote a series of threads on Twitter for the 5th anniversary. I’m finally making the time to post a blog based on those threads (still with Twitter-sized paragraphs). I updated some of the links and added some punctuation, but otherwise didn’t edit it much. Hopefully this makes it easier to find than dozens of separate Twitter posts.
https://medium.com/@bgrant0607/the-technical-history-of-kubernetes-2fe1988b522a
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