Kubernetes, often called K8s, is widely respected as a platform‑agnostic orchestration engine for containers. It enables starting, scaling and managing containerized applications across many servers using declarative resources and a self-healing architecture.
The project is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and is available via their website and GitHub organization. Language support is bolstered by client libraries and a large community, with many tools that ease production use.
The ecosystem around Kubernetes is vast - from security tooling to deployment solutions. There are also well-developed libraries and operational tools, such as Minikube for local development. Taken together, this makes Kubernetes both versatile and battle-tested in production environments.






































