Cloud Computing: Why Google is sowing the seeds of container-based computing
June 12, 2014
Grazed from Regrit. Author: Editorial Staff.
When Google announced the Kubernetes Docker-management system on Tuesday, it wasn’t open sourcing its cloud computing “secret weapon” as much as it was open sourcing its viewpoint on how applications should be built and deployed. Google, the cloud computing provider, will always be compared with Amazon Web Services, but pushing technologies reminiscent of Google’s own vaunted Omega system could become a strong point of distinction and a major draw for developers.
This has been Google’s approach to cloud computing all along, if you’ll recall. The promise of App Engine, its now 6-year-old platform-as-a-service offering, is being able to deploy web applications on Google’s infrastructure stack and being confident they’ll keep running and scale as needed with little handholding…
Not long after Google opened up its Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service offering, it announced a feature called live migration that promises to dynamically move virtual machines from region to region when Google is doing scheduled maintenance in the original region. It also offers container-optimized VMs…
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