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Ask HN: What Is Google's Container Runtime?
We know Google internally uses Kubernetes, but what is the container runtime ? Is it Docker ? Perhaps not, LXC ? Or runc (which is again Docker)? Or a Homebrew solution ? Is there some documentation on this somewhere please ?
Thanks !
- kevan 11y agoI thought Google was still using Borg[1] internally but Kubernetes is being built with the lessons learned from Borg. From that paper: >Now, all Borg tasks run inside a Linux cgroup-based resource container... I don't work for Google so this is just a guess, but you could probably ping @kelseyhightower on twitter and get a real answer pretty quickly. [1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html
- TwoFourIO 11y agoWell just did that, let's see....