the.com/kubernetes
a robot shipping manager who never sleeps and never stops moving your containers around.
means an open-source system that automatically deploys, scales, and manages containerized applications across clusters of machines.
from greek for helmsman, the same root as cybernetics; google open-sourced it in 2014 based on its internal borg system, and the logo is a ship's wheel.
nicknamek8s, because eight letters between k and s
origin labgrew out of google borg, running since 2003
scale flexcan manage thousands of containers across thousands of machines
donatedgoogle gave it to the linux foundation in 2015