Kubernetes Open-Sourced by Google

Google announced and open-sourced Kubernetes, a system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, based on their internal Borg system.

Significance

This laid the foundation for the entire cloud-native ecosystem and eventually necessitated managed services like EKS from cloud providers.

Key facts

Date
2014-06-06
Type
invention
Location
Mountain View, California, USA