Cloud Computing: Google’s container management system gets some surprising support

Grazed from TechTimes.  Author: Mike Cannon.

Google’s Kubernetes project seeks to provide an open-source standard for Docker container management. Kubernetes is receiving a surprising amount of support from other companies, with a number of tech giants collaborating on the project.

Supporters of Kubernetes now include Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, and Docker itself. Kubernetes promises to revolutionize cloud computing by making container management easier. By making the system an open-source standard, Google wants to make Kubernetes compatible with any system, making containers transferrable between different paltforms and operating systems…


"We’ve seen a lot of really rapid interest and adoption," says Miles Ward, global head of solutions for Google’s cloud platform. "It’s a pretty significant shift forward in the ecosystem."…

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