Introducing Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a portable and open source platform used for the management of containerized applications and services. It is used to facilitate the configuration and automation of applications. Kubernetes is growing fast, and its support, services, and tools are available to the masses.

Kubernetes is a Google project that was made open source in 2014, and hence it is developed with the decades of Google's experience of handling large-scale workloads, integrated with the best ideas and practices contributed by the community.

Kubernetes works with a lot of different tools, including Docker, to provide the containerized applications a platform for the purposes of scaling, operations, and automation of deployment.

Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie first developed Kubernetes. Different engineers at Google, such as Brian Grant and Tim Hockin, soon joined them. The Borg system of Google has been a heavy influence on the design and development of Kubernetes, as many...