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by sanitycheck 1887 days ago
What next, human Kubernetes? (No no no it's a Joke, Deliveroo and Uber staff, don't you dare paste that into Slack)
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Google keeps saying that Kubernetes is a real world, κυβερνήτης, Greek for "helmsman" or "pilot" or "governor"[0][1], but its predecessor was called Borg, so in my mind, the true meaning of "Kubernetes" was always "a network of (Borg) cubes".

This way, I've already seen on TV what "Human Kubernetes" looks like. Resistance is futile.

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[0] - Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes#History.

[1] - Curiously, it's also the etymological root of cybernetics; cybernetics -> cyborg -> the Borg.

Some shops that manually manage docker containers on VMs call it "meat scheduling".
Human Kubernetes == System Admin. It's already there.

But yeah, it could be a fancy new word for VC haha.

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