The Orchestration Epiphany I joined the Kubernetes team in January 2015, and one of my first memories was a late-night chat with Tim Hockin. We were discussing the opportunity in front of us, and he told me about his first experience with Borg, Google's internal orchestration system. "I remember when I spun up 25,000 jobs on Borg as easily as I spun up a single process on my own machine," he said. "That was the epiphany for him, and his question to me was, 'How do we give that feeling to everyone with Kubernetes?'" I had certainly never spun up 25,000 jobs; I'd probably never spun up 2.5 jobs simultaneously. But a system that could handle something like that without you knowing or caring about where, when, or how those machines were available? That was truly revolutionary. The thing is, most people think that revolution was about containers. It wasn't. It was about orchestration, and more specifically, about a fundamental shift in how we think about systems.…