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title: "Kubernetes (K8s)"
date: "2021-02-18T03:58:12+00:00"
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description: "Kubernetes (K8s) Glossary: Secure Your Container Orchestration. Learn Best Practices and Tools with Checkmarx."
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# Kubernetes (K8s)

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot. Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. Kubernetes combines over 15 years of Google’s experience running production workloads at scale with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.