Kubernetes (K8s)

An open-source platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Detailed Explanation

Kubernetes orchestrates containers across a cluster of machines, handling tasks like load balancing, scaling, rolling updates, and self-healing. It provides a framework to run distributed systems resiliently, managing when and where containers run, resource allocation, and service discovery. Kubernetes has become the industry standard for container orchestration.

Examples

  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Amazon EKS
  • Azure AKS

Common Use Cases

Container orchestration

Microservices deployment

Auto-scaling

Related Terms

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