Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Kubernetes provides a container-centric infrastructure platform for deploying and running applications across multiple clusters of hosts. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery.

Kubernetes is designed to run on-premise, in public or private clouds, or even hybrid cloud environments. It monitors and manages the applications and associated resources using a set of APIs and command line tools. It allows developers to quickly scale applications in either manual or automatic mode as needed. Kubernetes also provides security features for authentication, authorization, and encryption.

Kubernetes is widely used to build distributed applications. It is also used for developing, hosting, and running microservices-based applications. Kubernetes can also be used for stateful applications such as databases, shared storage services, file systems, cache servers, and streaming systems.

Kubernetes is popular with developers for its ease of use and flexibility. Its user interface is designed to be familiar, making it simple to use tools that developers already know. It uses labels and annotations for common tasks such as scheduling, scaling, and system health. Kubernetes also provides many useful and powerful tools for monitoring and managing the deployed application.

Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for operating containerized microservices applications. It is used by many major organizations such as Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM, making it an industry recognized platform. As a result, Kubernetes is an important skill to possess for those in the IT and software engineering industries.