kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
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[](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/569) Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing [containerized applications] across multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications. Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience at Google running production workloads at scale using a system called [Borg], combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Kubernetes is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ([CNCF]). If your company wants to help shape the evolution of technologies that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled, and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF. For details about who's involved and how Kubernetes plays a role, read the CNCF [announcement]. See our documentation on [kubernetes.io]. Take a free course on [Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes]. To use Kubernetes code as a library in other applications, see the list of published components. Use of the k8s.io/kubernetes module or k8s.io/kubernetes/... packages as libraries is not…
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- Kubernetes (K8s)
- To start using K8s
- To start developing K8s
- You have a working [Go environment].
- You have a working [Docker environment].
- Support
- Community Meetings
- Adopters
- Governance
- Roadmap
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What this repository does
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Repository facts
- Owner
- kubernetes
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 128,810
- Forks
- 45,729
- Open issues + pull requests
- 3,215
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2014-06-06T22:56:04.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-31T11:25:37.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cncf, containers, go, kubernetes
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