SE Radio 246: John Wilkes on Borg and Kubernetes

Venue: Internet
John Wilkes from Google talks with Charles Anderson about managing large clusters of machines. The discussion starts with Borg, Google’s internal cluster management program. John discusses what Borg does and what it provides to programmers and system administrators. He also describes Kubernetes, an open-source cluster management system recently developed by Google using lessons learned from Borg, Mesos, and Omega.

Show Notes

Related Links:

• John’s personal site http://www.e-wilkes.com/john/
• “Large Scale Cluster Management at Google with Borg” http://www.e-wilkes.com/john/papers/2015-EuroSys-Borg.pdf
• Kubernetes http://kubernetes.io/
• Apache Mesos http://mesos.apache.org/
• SE-Radio Episode 235: Ben Hindman on Apache Mesos https://www.se-radio.net/2015/08/se-radio-episode-235-ben-hindman-on-apache-mesos/
• Docker https://www.docker.com/
• Episode 217: James Turnbull on Docker  https://www.se-radio.net/2015/01/episode-217-james-turnbull-on-docker/
• Second System Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_second-system_effect
• “Omega: Flexible, Scalable Schedulers for Large Compute Clusters” http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41684.html