Containers eat the datacenter

Docker made Linux containers a developer experience in 2013; Google open-sourced Kubernetes in 2014, and by 2015 it was the operating layer of the cloud native world.

Why it matters

The datacenter stopped being racks of servers and became a programmable pool — the abstraction layer where cloud, DevOps and site-reliability engineering live. The ladder this site's Journey section climbs ends here.

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From this site

• Journey · Into the datacenter era2019 · Cloud Engineer / System Administrator
• Writing · What Twenty Years of Infrastructure Change Taught Me9 min read
• Writing · Physical Servers, VMs, Containers: A Field Guide8 min read

Sources

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation — History of K8s