Open-Source

17th May 2019

What Is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available. Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience that Google has with running production workloads at scale, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Kubernetes, at its basic level, is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. It is a platform design to completely manage the life cycle […]