Kubernetes is a system for automating the deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications across clusters of computers, grouping an application's containers into units called pods that it schedules, monitors and restarts as needed. Google designed Kubernetes internally, drawing on more than a decade of experience running containers company-wide with an earlier, proprietary cluster manager called Borg, and released it as open-source software in June 2014 under the stewardship of engineers including Joe Beda, Brendan Burns and Craig McLuckie. Google donated the project to the newly formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, and Kubernetes went on to become the dominant container-orchestration system used to run large-scale applications in data centers and public clouds worldwide.
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Patent or First-Use Date SignificanceWidely adopted in clouds and data centers for running and managing workloads of all sizes and styles. 1 FAQs
What does the name Kubernetes mean and why is it called K8s?
It is Greek for helmsman or pilot; K8s abbreviates it by counting the eight letters between the K and the s.
The name Kubernetes comes from Greek, where it means helmsman or pilot. K8s is a shorthand made by counting the eight letters between the K and the s, replacing them with the number 8.
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1. Wikipedia: Kubernetes
History, paragraph 3, sentence 1
Kubernetes was announced in June, 2014
History, paragraph 1, sentence 1
Kubernetes was announced by Google on June 6, 2014.
Lead section, paragraph 3, sentence 3
Its suitability for running and managing workloads of all sizes and styles has led to its widespread adoption in clouds and data centers.
In Group: Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure, Lead section
is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management
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