Developer Builds Go-Based Hybrid Container Orchestrator with AI Pair Programmer

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A developer has created Gubernator (gbnt), an open-source container orchestrator written in Go, designed to bridge the gap between Docker Compose's simplicity and HashiCorp Nomad's reliability. The tool uses a single binary that can function as both a Central Manager and Worker Agent, with a SQLite-backed state store and local worker caching for resilience. Gubernator employs a decentralized ingress and DNS architecture using CoreDNS and Caddy, so web traffic routes directly to the worker VM hosting a container rather than passing through a central manager. The project was tested across three Multipass Ubuntu VMs simulating a real multi-node cluster environment. Notably, all Go code, database integrations, and cluster configurations were co-authored with Antigravity, Google DeepMind's agentic AI coding assistant.

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