What is Kubernetes? The Technology Behind Modern Cloud Applications

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform for running applications reliably at scale.

It was created to manage complex containerized workloads and differs from Docker, which focuses on building and running individual containers.

Core Kubernetes concepts like Pods, Deployments, Services, and Clusters support scaling, self-healing, and load balancing.

It enables automated deployments, rolling updates, and failure recovery for cloud-native apps across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other environments.