Kubernetes

Open Source

The industry-standard container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Capabilities: Automated container rollout and rollback Horizontal pod autoscaling Service discovery and load balancing Storage orchestration across cloud providers

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Overview

Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is a production-grade open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Originally developed by Google and now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it has become the definitive operating system for the cloud. Its architecture is built around a declarative model, where users define the desired state of their infrastructure, and Kubernetes' control plane works continuously to maintain that state. By 2026, Kubernetes has evolved to support heterogeneous workloads, including seamless integration of AI/ML GPU partitioning and sovereign cloud requirements. Its core components—the API server, etcd, scheduler, and controller manager—facilitate a highly resilient environment capable of self-healing, horizontal scaling, and zero-downtime rollouts. As organizations shift toward platform engineering, Kubernetes serves as the foundational layer for internal developer platforms (IDPs), enabling granular resource allocation and multi-tenant isolation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Self-Healing

Automatically restarts containers that fail, replaces and reschedules containers when nodes die, and kills containers that don't respond to user-defined health checks.