Now enterprise administrators can catch a bit of the magic that Google seemingly uses to smoothly run large Web scale applications. The company has released a production-ready version its Kubernetes software that manages virtual containers.

Kubernetes could be a cornerstone in an emerging approach to systems design, called micro-services, in which applications are broken into multiple components and packaged in virtual containers so they can be easily moved around or duplicated to handle heavy workloads.

For Google, the container-based approach “has fundamentally changed our game in terms of efficiencies, stability of applications and the amount of overhead it takes to accomplish a specific outcome,” said Craig McLuckie, Google product manager. “Our goal is to bring this to enterprises everywhere and give them the same basic experience.”

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