Kubernetes ( Ancient Greek: κυβερνήτης, romanized: kubernḗtēs, ' steersman, navigator ' or ' guide ', and the etymological root of cybernetics) was announced by Google in mid-2014. History Google Kubernetes Engine talk at Google Cloud Summit There are multiple distributions of this platform – from independent software vendors (ISVs) as well as hosted-on-cloud offerings from all the major public cloud vendors. Its suitability for running and managing large cloud-native workloads has led to widespread adoption of it in the data center. Kubernetes works with various container runtimes, such as containerd and CRI-O. Kubernetes is often abbreviated as K8s, counting the eight letters between the K and the s (a numeronym).
The name Kubernetes originates from Ancient Greek, meaning 'helmsman' or 'pilot'. Originally designed by Google, the project is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Kubernetes ( / ˌ k( j) uː b ər ˈ n ɛ t ɪ s, - ˈ n eɪ t ɪ s, - ˈ n eɪ t iː z, - ˈ n ɛ t iː z/, commonly abbreviated K8s ) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management.
