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To be clear -- Kubernetes was built on ideas that were proven out at Google over 10 years. While it was a new code base, those ideas were the product of a cast of (literally?) thousands.

What Brendan, Craig and I did was (a) meld those ideas with the external-to-Google world (including Docker), (b) motivate releasing it as Open Source (not the default model for Google TI) and (c) work to seed a really open community that we wanted to participate in.

Soon after we started some other folks from around Google and beyond joined in. From Google, those include Ville Aikas (not super active these days, doing other stuff at Google), Tim Hockin, Brian Grant, Dawn Chen, Daniel Smith. Most of these folks had worked on Borg and/or Omega. From outside Kelsey Hightower got involved very early (long before Kubernetes was a thing for CoreOS) and the folks from RedHat (led by Clayton Coleman). I'm sure I'm forgetting folks but hopefully that gives some context.