Google Cloud Platform, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, Containers

Google Partners With Mesosphere - Ramps Up Its Container Commitment: ".... it’s interesting to hear that the two companies are collaborating to bring together Mesosphere, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform in an effort to make it easier for users to run applications and containers at scale. What this means is that Mesosphere is delivering an application that enables customers to deploy Mesosphere clusters on the Google Cloud Platform rapidly. In addition they are incorporating Kubernetes into Mesos to manage the deployment of Docker workloads. Using the app, developers can spin up a Mesosphere cluster on GCP in a few clicks – the app installs and configures everything required to run the cluster. There is no charge for using the app, beyond the service fees for the Google Cloud Platform resources used. Customers can schedule Docker containers side by side on the same Mesosphere cluster as other Linux workloads such as data analytics tasks like Spark and Hadoop and more traditional tasks like shell scripts and jar files...."

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Containers, Cloud Computing, Saving the Planet

‘THE CONTAINERIZATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN THE AGE OF THE CLOUD WILL SAVE MORE CO2 EMISSIONS THAN ELECTRIC CARS.’ (source infra)

Cloud Computing Could Do More to Save the Planet Than Electric Cars | Enterprise | WIRED: "... Much like Pantheon, Google uses containers to run its own online services–from Search and Gmail to Google Maps–and according to the company, this has probably helped save it the cost of building an entire data center. Now, in an effort to bring this technology to others, it has already embraced containers on its cloud services–Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine–though it uses a hybrid model where containers exist alongside virtual machines. “Containers just let you get more out of your infrastructure–whether that infrastructure is a bare metal server or a hypervisor-encapsulated virtual machine,” says Craig Mcluckie, a product manager who oversees Google’s cloud services. “They let you get more out of your basic resources.”..." (read more at link above)

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