> Concretely, Kubernetes started as some prototypes from Brendan Burns combined with ongoing work from me and Craig McLuckie to better align the internal Google experience with the Google Cloud experience. Brendan, Craig, and I really wanted people to use this, so we made the case to build out this prototype as an open source project that would bring the best ideas from Borg out into the open.
> After we got the nod, it was time to actually build the system. We took Brendan’s prototype (in Java), rewrote it in Go, and built just enough to get the core ideas across
I remember a comment from someone on the go team (bradfitz maybe) saying that the initial plan for Kubernetes was to be implemented in java, but go was chosen because it already had a lot of momentum in the container world.
Citation needed.
AFAIR Borg is implemented in C++ and k8s has been implemented in Go from day 0.
Am I missing some crucial steps in k8s's history?