Kubernetes, often abbreviated K8s, is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications, originally designed at Google and released in 2014 before Google donated it to the newly formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation. It draws on Google's internal Borg and Omega cluster-management systems, and it groups an application's containers into logical units called pods that it schedules across a cluster of machines while continually working to match the cluster's actual state to a declared desired state. Kubernetes became the dominant container orchestration system, and a large ecosystem of tools now builds on its API. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceAn open-source container orchestration system, originally designed at Google, that automates deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. 1 FAQs
What does the name Kubernetes mean, and why is it called K8s?
It comes from the Greek word for helmsman or pilot, and K8s abbreviates it as K, eight letters, then s.
The name Kubernetes comes from the Ancient Greek term κυβερνήτης, kubernḗtēs, meaning helmsman or pilot, which is also the origin of the words cybernetics and, through Latin, governor. K8s is a numerical contraction: the letter K, followed by eight letters, followed by s.
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Kubernetes (), also known as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Originally designed by Google, the project is now maintained by a worldwide community of contributors, and the trademark is held by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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Kubernetes (), also known as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management.
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Kubernetes (), also known as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management.
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