Kubernetes K8s
More info
- Creator
- Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, Craig McLuckie (Google)
- Released
- Owner
- CNCF
- Type
- Container orchestration
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- kubernetes.io
- Source
- github.com/kubernetes
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
A system that coordinates lots of containers across many servers — starts, scales, heals, balances.
If Docker is the tool to pack the container, Kubernetes is the tool to manage a thousand containers in production. You say "I want 5 instances of app A and 12 of app B"; Kubernetes makes sure that stays true even if servers die.
Famously complex. For small projects it's overkill — use Fly.io, Render or a single VPS. Kubernetes makes sense at multiple teams and hundreds of services.