Kubernetes Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is an open-source project that originated at Google. Version one of Kubernetes was released in July 2015. It was the third generation of container schedulers from Google, following previous projects like Borg and Omega. Google later donated Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which now supervises its development.
Its primary purpose is to serve as the leading container orchestration tool. It is designed as a loosely coupled collection of components for deploying, managing, and scaling containers. Kubernetes is vendor-neutral, meaning it is not tied to a single company and can run on all cloud providers. There is also a significant community ecosystem surrounding it.
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