Most of the heavy lifting to implement containers was done by the kernel developer community and projects like LXC.
Yet, docker and kubernetes are very much hype/marketing driven and took away a lot of recognition from the kernel developers.
Yet, docker and kubernetes are very much hype/marketing driven and took away a lot of recognition from the kernel developers.
To the point of a throwdown on LKML when Lennart tried to "lay claim" to cgroups v2 as "owned solely by systemd", and got a rather... Funny response.
And only because google really needed it for internal use.
Many other companies, orgs and individual contributors contributed bigger chunks of work but you don't hear people praising them.
This effort was funded in part by Google.
The foundation itself is also primarily funded by such companies.
This is not correct. There is such thing as a *paid volunteer*.
Additionally, a large percentage of contributors are unaffiliated, independent or part of small companies:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/paid-develop...