I think it's fair to say both statements are true: > Kubernetes was built on ideas that had been proven out at Google over the previous ten years with Borg. An

I think it's fair to say both statements are true: > Kubernetes was built on ideas that had been proven out at Google over the previous ten years with Borg. And Borg, itself, owed its existence to even earlier efforts at Google and beyond. > Concretely, Kubernetes started as some prototypes from Brendan Burns combined with ongoing work from me and Craig McLuckie to better align the internal Google experience with the Google Cloud experience. Brendan, Craig, and I really wanted people to use this, so we made the case to build out this prototype as an open source project that would bring the best ideas from Borg out into the open. > After we got the nod, it was time to actually build the system. We took Brendan’s prototype (in Java), rewrote it in Go, and built just enough to get the core ideas across. By this time the team had grown to include Ville Aikas, Tim Hockin, Brian Grant, Dawn Chen and Daniel Smith. Once we had something working, someone had to sign up to clean things up to get it ready for public launch. That ended up being me. Not knowing the significance at the time, I created a new repo, moved things over, and checked it in. So while I have the first public commit to the repo, there was work underway well before that. https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/06/4-years-of-k8s/ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/06/06/4-years-of-k8s/