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Tech giant Google announced at the OSCon that its open source container deployment and management tool will be released for free and will be called Kubernetes 1.0.
Kubernetes 1.0 is a production-ready version of the open source container orchestration system. Kubernetes currently manage Google's native container technology that lets its services like Gmail, Search and Google Docs run. This container technology is called lmctfy (Let Me Contain That For You).
Google's aim for releasing Kubernetes into the public domain is for it be developed in platforms other than the company's own data center running in Linux. The company also wants to integrate the new technology into the cloud platform and other operating system.
Prior to the release of Kubernetes, Google announced that it will join the OpenStack Foundation in order to fully integrate Kubernetes into the OpenStack platform.
In July 2014, Google also worked with Microsoft in order to integrate Kubernetes into the latter's cloud computing platform called Azure. In April, Google integrated Kubernetes into Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) which helped bring Docker containers into the DCOS platform.
While Google is steadily integrating its Kubernetes technology into some of the widely used cloud platform Amazon Web Services has been resilient in integrating the technology into its cloud services. According to ZDnet, Kubernetes will no doubt find its biggest competition in Amazon's EC2 Container Service.
Since its inception, the Kubernetes project is one of Google's most successful and popular open source projects. The project is currently backed up by several big brands in the tech industry like IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Core OS and VMware, according to The Platform.
