🛠️ Invention or technique

Docker containers and Kubernetes

Contenedores Docker y orquestación Kubernetes

Date
2013 · confidence high
Place
Docker, San Francisco, and Google, Mountain View, California, United States
Credited to
Solomon Hykes (Docker, 2013); Google (Kubernetes, 2014, derived from Borg)
People
👤 Solomon Hykes1983–
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

Packaging of applications with all their dependencies into lightweight, portable units, and a system for deploying and scaling them automatically. It standardised how software is deployed in the cloud.

What it led to

  • Microservices architectures and continuous deployment
  • Portability between clouds and the hybrid cloud
  • The DevOps profession
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Built on

Made possible

  • microservices
  • serverless platforms

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