Kubernetes (κυβερνήτης, Greek for "helmsman" or "pilot" or "governor", and the etymological root of cybernetics) was founded by Joe Beda, Brendan Burns, and Craig McLuckie, who were quickly joined by other Google en

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery.

Kubernetes Architecture and Concepts. From a high level, a Kubernetes environment consists of a control plane (master), a distributed storage system for keeping the cluster state consistent (), and a number of cluster nodes (Kubelets).