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Kubernetes

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌkuːbərˈnɛtiːz/nounCore term

In software engineering, Kubernetes means: An open-source system that runs and manages containers across many machines: it starts them, restarts failed ones, spreads traffic and scales them up or down.

In Turkish: Kubernetes, K8s, konteyner orkestrasyon platformu

How it is used

Originally designed at Google and released in 2014, now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Often written K8s (eight letters between K and s). Managed versions include Amazon EKS, Azure AKS and Google GKE.

Example sentences

  1. Kubernetes restarted the crashed pods automatically, so users didn't notice anything.

  2. Running Kubernetes yourself is a lot of work, so we switched to a managed cluster.

Common collocations

  • Kubernetes cluster
  • deploy to Kubernetes
  • managed Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes manifest
  • run on Kubernetes
  • orchestrationThe automatic management of many containers or services: deciding where they run, starting and restarting them, connecting them and scaling them.
  • clusterA group of connected machines that work together as one system, for example to run containers in Kubernetes or to store data in a database.
  • podThe smallest unit that Kubernetes runs: one or more containers that are always placed together on the same node and share a network address and storage.
  • nodeOne machine, physical or virtual, that is part of a cluster. In Kubernetes, worker nodes are the machines where pods actually run.
  • containerA lightweight, isolated package that holds an application together with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on a laptop, a test server or in the cloud.

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