Kubernetes Glossary Definition

Term Kubernetes
Definition

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform originally developed at Google and now governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Context & Usage

Platform engineers and developers use this concept when standardizing application packaging, scheduling workloads, and running services across clusters.

Related concepts include Container, Container Orchestration and Cluster.

Additional Resource: CNCF Cloud Native Glossary.

Platform teams use it to automate deployment, scaling, networking, scheduling, and lifecycle management for containerized applications.

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