Borg is a
cluster manager Within cluster and parallel computing, a cluster manager is usually backend graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI) software that runs on a set of cluster nodes that it manages (in some cases it runs on a different server or ...
used by
Google
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. It led to widespread use of similar approaches such as
Docker and
Kubernetes
Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains ...
.
See also
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Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is an open-source project to manage computer clusters. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
History
Mesos began as a research project in the UC Berkeley RAD Lab by then PhD students Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konw ...
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List of cluster management software
List of software for cluster management.
Free and open source
* HA
** Apache Mesos, from the Apache Software Foundation
** Kubernetes, founded by Google Inc, from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
** Heartbeat, from Linux-HA
** Docker Swarm
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains ...
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DC/OS
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Operating-system-level virtualization
OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, called ''containers'' ( LXC, Solaris containers, Docker, Podman), ''zones'' (Solaris containers), '' ...
(containerization)
References
Further reading
A New Era of Container Cluster Management with Kubernetes
Cluster computing
Google software
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