What is Kubernetes?
An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management.
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system originally designed by Google and now maintained by the CNCF. It automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes provides: self-healing (restarts failed containers), horizontal scaling (add/remove replicas), service discovery and load balancing, rolling updates and rollbacks, secret and configuration management, and storage orchestration.
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Admission Controller
A Kubernetes plugin that intercepts API requests before objects are persisted.
Auto Scaling
Automatically adjusting the number of compute resources based on demand.
ClusterIP
The default Kubernetes Service type that exposes a service on an internal cluster IP.
ConfigMap
A Kubernetes object for storing non-sensitive configuration data as key-value pairs.
Controller Manager
Kubernetes control plane component running control loops to maintain desired state.
CoreDNS
The default DNS server in Kubernetes clusters for service discovery.
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