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Omega was a precursor to this system that distinguished itself through its use of “shared state”, in contrast with earlier systems that were either “monolithic” or “two-level”. An even earlier precursor was named Borg, which influenced this system’s code name of “Project (15[1])7”. (15[1])A blog post titled “Unironically Using [this system] for my Personal Blog” praises the declarative nature of how its controllers automatically track resource types. This system’s version 1.3 release added support for CoreOS’s rkt (“rocket”) engine. Affinity, taints, and tolerations (-5[1])are concepts used in this system to match machines known as nodes to simple units called (*) pods. In 2020, this system deprecated Docker as a container runtime. For 10 points, name this container orchestration system originally (10[1])designed by Google, (10[1])whose name comes from the Greek for “helmsman” and is abbreviated “K8s”. ■END■ (10[1])

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