<p><a href="http://kubernetes.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kubernetes</a> is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.</p>

<p>In the official site of Kubernetes it says "Google runs billions of containers a week", my question is: if a container here means a containerized application, does that mean Google have billions of applications? It simply sounds ridiculous, what am I misunderstanding?</p>

<p>Gmail itself can be millions of containers (just throwing out a number). It need not mean that many applications. There might also be short term jobs etc.</p>
