does anyone at @Google past or present know when the concept of ‘pods’ as a unit of deployed processes originated?
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Borg "alloc" -> Omega "scheduling unit" -> Kubernetes "pod". The name itself was from a brainstorm. Docker's logo is a whale. A group of whales is called a ... Also, it was short. The network model was explored in Borg a few years prior, but wasn't feasible at the time.
"AllocVM" (not the usual notion VM). Alloc was an array of AllocVMs. SchedulingUnit was also prototyped in Borg and implemented in a couple other components/systems. It came out of a discussion with a senior SRE about how users used Allocs.
