Kubernetes (Kubernetes) is an open-source container orchestration system that can deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications.

It is called “Kubernetes”, “Kubernetes”, “K8s”, “Kube”, “Kuber”, “Cube” and is managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the Linux Foundation under the Apache License 2.0 license. do.

Kubernetes is a platform developed and designed by Google engineers, and is an open-source software based on the idea of “Borg,” a container cluster management tool used in-house.

Google has made Kubernetes an open-source project based on the experience accumulated from developing and operating Borg, which is the source of Kubernetes, for several years.

Kubernetes started in June 2014 and released version 1.0 in July 2015, and now major cloud vendors such as Google, Amazon, and Azure, and software vendors such as IBM and Oracle provide Kubernetes distributions under their own brands. are doing