Kubernetes
DevOps & Delivery Technologies
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It provides high availability, resilience, and operational consistency at scale.
What is it?
Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open-source system for orchestrating containers across clusters of machines. Originally developed at Google, it standardizes how containerized applications are run in production.
What does it do?
Kubernetes schedules containers, manages service discovery, handles scaling and self-healing, performs rolling updates, and enforces desired state through declarative configuration. It abstracts infrastructure complexity behind a consistent API.
Where is it used?
Kubernetes is widely used in enterprise platforms, SaaS products, microservices architectures, cloud-native applications, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments requiring reliability and scalability.
When & why it emerged
Kubernetes was open-sourced in 2014 to bring Google’s large-scale container orchestration experience to the broader community. It emerged to solve operational challenges of running containers reliably in production.
Why we use it at Internative
We use Kubernetes to build resilient, scalable delivery platforms. It enables us to operate complex systems reliably, automate deployments, and support growth without re-architecting infrastructure.
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