Building a ubiquitous shared infrastructure using Twine
What the research is: Twine is our homegrown cluster management system, which has been running in production for the past decade. A cluster management system allocates workloads to machines and manages the life cycle of machines, containers, and workloads. Kubernetes is a prominent example of an open source cluster management system. Twine has helped convert […] Read More… The post Building a
ubiquitous shared infrastructure using Twine appeared first on Facebook Engineering.
Date: 2020-11-11
URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/11/11/data-center-engineering/twine-2/
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