Though, as a counter-counter point, a blog post from Kubernetes itself states that it's got a direct lineage https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor

Though, as a counter-counter point, a blog post from Kubernetes itself states that it's got a direct lineage https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes/ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kuber... My guess is that the truth is in the middle :)