What Kubernetes does One Docker container on one machine is easy to run by hand. Fifty containers across ten machines — restarting them when they crash, moving them when a machine dies, splitting traffic between them, updating them without downtime — is not. Kubernetes (shortened to K8s) is the system that does that managing for you. What Is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is an open-source platform for container orchestration. Google created it in 2014 based on 15 years of running containers at scale, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) maintains it now. ...