Comment by dilyevsky
4 months ago
Linux CGroups specifically were started at Google because their cluster management system Borg (or maybe it was still Babysitter at the time) needed a way to do resource tracking and admission control. Here's a comment by one of original devs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25017753
This is also somewhat highlighted in Google's paper "Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes" which they published in 2016.
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...