How Kubernetes Changes Operations

Brendan Burns is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, Inc. and a founder of the Kubernetes project, leading engineering efforts to make the Google Cloud Platform the best place to run containers. He also has managed several other cloud teams, including Deployment Manager, Managed VMs, and Cloud DNS. Prior to Cloud, he was a lead engineer in Google’s Web search infrastructure, building backends that powered social and personal search. Prior to working at Google, he was a professor at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a BA in computer science and studio art from Williams College. bburns@google.com Container cluster managers are used by many Web-scale Internet companies, including Google’s Borg and Omega, Facebook’s Tupperware, Twitter’s Aurora, and many others. At their core, these container orchestration systems schedule and manage (“orchestrate”) collections of Linux application containers. In this article, I will explain the Kubernetes project.