Nobody on the Kubernetes project ever claimed that it was an internal project gone public. It was absolutely, 100% designed to be open-sourced as a derivative of Borg and Omega. There's not sleight of hand here.
That said, we had been discussing a Borg-as-a-Service for quite some time BEFORE Docker became popular. Docker's popularity was undeniably a catalyst in getting Kubernetes built.
That said, we had been discussing a Borg-as-a-Service for quite some time BEFORE Docker became popular. Docker's popularity was undeniably a catalyst in getting Kubernetes built.