‘How And Why Google Is Open Sourcing Its Data Centers’ – ‘ReadWrite’
Matt Asay says, “Google’s back in the open source game, and in a big way. In a world increasingly bent on opening up innovation outside the company firewall, Google just took a major step forward.
In June, Google made cloud headlines when it open sourced its Kubernetes project for managing Linux application containers. (These containers are a sort of software “wrapper” that make it much easier to run a given program on any computer without a lot of laborious customization work.) In effect, Google has offered the open source community an application architecture modeled after its own internal tools—in Greek, Kubernetes means literally “helmsman of a ship.””.
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