Google: Docker Does Containers Right

Two leaders for Google's cloud computing services talk about how they use containers in the data center, and why virtual machines also remain critical to their strategy.
Google has a decade of experience in using containers to improve how its data center runs search, Gmail, and other operations. But the company has rarely talked much about its experience, even though it's launching more than 3,000 containers per second. That's about to change as the company starts to evangelize container use and an open-source project it supports.
Senior product lead for Google Compute Engine, Craig McLuckie, is slated to speak today at the Linux Collaboration Summit in Santa Rosa, Calif., where he will describe how Google generates, manages, and tears down 2 billion containers a week. In an interview with InformationWeek on Wednesday, he previewed the lessons learned he will talk about at the Summit.

Over the last two years, McLuckie has been an advocate inside the company for Google to nurture a broader community involved in container management. It had already launched a container management system known internally as "the Borg," then outgrew its capabilities and replaced it with something it called, "Let Me Contain That For You."
"We don't have a lot of skill at naming things. Can you tell?" he said during an interview in the courtyard of the Vineyard Creek Hyatt, where the summit is being held.
[Want to learn more about VMware's recommendations on container management? See VMware: VMs and Containers, Better Together. ]


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