--- title: Kubernetes story and Multi cloud observability tool description: A narrative walkthrough of Kubernetes history, tracing its origins from Google's internal container orchestration system Borg, through its 2014 open-source... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-story-and-multi-cloud-observability-tool-z5gfs1l4e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Kubernetes story and Multi cloud observability tool | daily.dev og:description: A narrative walkthrough of Kubernetes history, tracing its origins from Google's internal container orchestration system Borg, through its 2014 open-source... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-story-and-multi-cloud-observability-tool-z5gfs1l4e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/z5GFS1l4e.png og:image:alt: Kubernetes story and Multi cloud observability tool og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kubernetes story and Multi cloud observability tool **[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 31 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A narrative walkthrough of Kubernetes history, tracing its origins from Google's internal container orchestration system Borg, through its 2014 open-source release, to becoming the industry standard adopted by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The story covers why Google chose to open source it (to break AWS vendor lock-in and establish an open standard), how Docker enabled container portability, and how Kubernetes won the orchestration war over Docker Swarm. The second part introduces OpManager Nexus, a sponsored multi-cloud observability platform that provides full-stack monitoring across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did Google open source Kubernetes instead of keeping it as an internal tool like Borg? Google open sourced Kubernetes to break away from competing directly with AWS on infrastructure and instead create an open standard that let workloads move freely between cloud providers. Because AWS had a dominant lead and heavy vendor lock-in made switching clouds difficult, Google bet that a free, portable orchestration standard would drive broader industry adoption of containers and indirectly benefit Google Cloud. _Developers weighing cloud lock-in risks can find more takes on multi-cloud strategy through daily.dev._ ### What is Google's Borg and how does it relate to Kubernetes? Borg was Google's internal container orchestration system, built to automatically manage hundreds of thousands of machines running Google's services like YouTube and Gmail. It found available machines to run containerized applications, restarted failed jobs, and killed finished ones. Kubernetes was developed as a public successor built on the lessons learned from operating Borg internally for years. _daily.dev helps engineers digging into orchestration history keep learning about Kubernetes internals._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly](https://daily.dev/posts/bryan-cantrill-how-kubernetes-broke-the-aws-cloud-monopoly-dlo5e9jpm) · The New Stack · 27 upvotes · 2 comments - [Kubernetes at a Crossroads: Hybrid Reality, AI Pressure and Open Source Roots](https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-at-a-crossroads-hybrid-reality-ai-pressure-and-open-source-roots-nrokwkl3q) · Cloud Native Now · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to use Kubernetes](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-kubernetes-zm9damhdz) · Serokell · 9 upvotes · 1 comments - [Medium](https://daily.dev/posts/medium-htpmregrn) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Best of 2025: The Observability Evolution: How AI and Open Source are Taming Kubernetes 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