Kubernetes (2014)
Google open-sourced Kubernetes in June 2014, a system for orchestrating containerized applications. It competed with Docker Swarm and Apache Mesos, and within a few years became the default orchestration layer for cloud-native software.
Kubernetes won the container-orchestration war; Docker Swarm and Mesos faded from the market.
An open-source project governed by a foundation now runs much of the world's production software.
AgentConnect makes a similar bet: that the orchestration layer for AI agents can be an open-source, community-run project rather than a proprietary vendor product.
