DevOps Dictionary

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that automates many of the manual processes involved in deploying, managing, and scaling containerised applications. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem and it's services, support, and tools are widely available. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. The name Kubernetes derives from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot. The shorthand "K8s" results from counting the eight letters between the "K" and the "s". Originally developed at Google and released as open source in 2014, the project is now maintained by a worldwide community of contributors.