This article hilariously makes it seem as though Google hadn't thought about using Linux cgroups and namespaces to manage processes before dotcloud conceived of Docker.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Google has been doing "containers" since before dotcloud was even a company.
>Google had tremendous experience with containers (they introduced cgroups in Linux) but existing internal container and distributed computing tools like Borg were directly coupled to their infrastructure.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Google has been doing "containers" since before dotcloud was even a company.