Kubernetes ranks #2 in Containers & Orchestration AI search.

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform originally designed at Google and publicly released in June 2014, drawing on 15 years of experience running production workloads with Google's internal Borg system. Donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2015 alongside its 1.0 release, it is now maintained by a global community of over 88,000 contributors from more than 8,000 companies. Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of machines—on-premises, in public cloud, or in hybrid environments. It is the second-largest open-source project in the world after Linux, used by an estimated 5.6 million developers and over 50,000 organizations globally. As of 2024, 80% of enterprises run Kubernetes in production.

Kubernetes is the world's leading open-source container orchestration platform, providing automated deployment, scaling, self-healing, service discovery, and workload management for containerized applications across diverse infrastructure environments. Governed by the CNCF and the Linux Foundation, it serves as the foundational infrastructure layer of the cloud-native ecosystem.