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Google + Containers (2014)

At Google, everything from Search to Gmail runs inside Linux containers. By 2014, Google was launching over 2 billion container instances per week across its global data centers. The power of containers allowed Google to deliver highly reliable and efficiently scalable services.

That same year, Google took a major step forward — making its container orchestration expertise available to the world.

📜 Kubernetes History

🛠️ 2014 – The Birth of Kubernetes

Kubernetes was created by Google as an open-source version of its internal container orchestration system, Borg.
- Mid-2014: Google announces Kubernetes to the public.

🚀 2015 – Official Launch

  • July 21, 2015: Kubernetes v1.0 is released.
  • Google partners with the Linux Foundation to form the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to manage the project.

🌍 2016 – Kubernetes Goes Mainstream

  • Tools like kops, Minikube, and kubeadm emerge to simplify Kubernetes adoption.
  • September 29, 2016: The Pokémon GO case study is published, highlighting Kubernetes at scale in production.

🏢 2017 – Enterprise Adoption Accelerates

  • Google and IBM announce Istio, a service mesh for Kubernetes.
  • GitHub migrates infrastructure to Kubernetes.
  • Oracle joins the CNCF as a major cloud provider.