What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration platform used for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It provides a container-centric infrastructure that simplifies the deployment and operation of applications in containers, offering features for load balancing, scaling, rolling updates, and self-healing. Kubernetes is widely adopted for container management and is a fundamental technology in modern cloud-native and microservices-based application development.