Official site of the container orchestration standard
Introduction
Kubernetes (K8s) is the de facto container-orchestration standard, drawing on Google Borg's design lessons — the scheduling bedrock of cloud-native apps today. The official site ships complete docs, interactive tutorials and production guides; knowing K8s is a de facto requirement for backend and SRE roles.
Key Features
- Declarative orchestration
- Autoscaling and self-healing
- Rich scheduling and network policies
- Vast cloud-native ecosystem
- Official interactive tutorials
Pros
- The irreplaceable industry standard
- Largest community and ecosystem
Cons
- Steep learning curve and ops complexity
Pricing
Open-source and free; managed offerings are billed by cloud providers.（See official site for current pricing）
FAQ
Do small projects need K8s?
Small monoliths are happier on a PaaS; adopt at microservice scale.
Where to start?
The official interactive tutorials plus local minikube/kind.
Relation to Docker Compose?
Compose targets single-machine dev; K8s orchestrates clusters.
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