Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing

Writers at Wired must have some kind of ridiculous policy about titles. An open source "secret weapon", Docker is the "next big thing" in cloud computing. Every single wired title that makes it HN makes me cringe. Everyone of them. The titles are silly, dishonest, upworthy, linkbait. I'm going to write an HN extension for chrome that just auto removes wired.com submissions when I load HN, it bothers me that much.

I wrote a little chrome extension that removes Wired, the content script is:

  var hn_blacklist = [
    "wired.com"
  ];
  
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $(".comhead").each(function (i, e) {
      var $e, tr;
      $e = $(e);
      hn_blacklist.forEach(function (domain) {
        if ($e.text().indexOf(domain) !== -1) {
          tr = $e.closest("tr");
          tr.next().remove();
          tr.remove();
        }
      });
    });
  });

You can add your own domains to it. I created a manifest.json to make this a chrome extension, included jQuery and now it works.

Wow, Wired likes to hide the real details in vague hyperlinks.

Here's the Kubernetes github repo: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes

And here's a Google Cloud Platform blog post that announces Docker support in App Enginer, Kubernetes and cAdvisor: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/06/an-update-on...

With Mesosphere getting a major investment the other day, docker gaining traction incredibly fast and now this this space will be really interesting to watch the coming years. The basic offering of AWS is being comoditized, but they still have their hosted services and the big community of stuff hosted on AWS as differentiators. But maybe it isn't too crazy to speculate that some of those services could be packaged up somehow and deployed on any cloud.