Kubernetes is the leading open-source orchestration platform for containerized workloads. It provides declarative APIs for scheduling, networking, scaling, and lifecycle automation.
- Multi-node production container orchestration
- Platform engineering and GitOps-style operations
- Large-scale microservice and stateful workload management
- Declarative workload APIs and controllers
- Self-healing scheduling and rollout controls
- Service discovery, load balancing, and storage orchestration
- Extensible operator and CRD ecosystem
- Go
- etcd control-plane datastore
- Active CNCF graduated project
- Latest stable release line includes Kubernetes v1.35.0
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