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It kinda did, right? Maybe, "invented" is to bold of a term, maybe there were others before. But, I've heard folk tales that Google has been running stuff in co

It kinda did, right? Maybe, "invented" is to bold of a term, maybe there were others before. But, I've heard folk tales that Google has been running stuff in containers since the early to mid 2000s.

virtualnm 10y ago
I was where I worked, with technology no one's heard of now, I doubt Google was then.
lern_too_spel 10y ago
Google contributed cgroups to Linux, so saying that it invented Linux containers is a fair statement. Other operating systems had containers before Linux.
- pawadu 10y ago
  would you consider "chroot" a form of container?
- SEJeff 10y ago
  Not exactly. Google contributed the namespace support to Linux and IBM contributed much of the initial control group bits to Linux. Together, they form the modern "container" that we have all came to know and love.