The Very Basics of Kubernetes

Understanding its architecture, kubectl, and manifest files

Jake Teo
DevOps.dev
Published in
5 min readMay 6, 2024

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Kubernetes logo.

Container orchestration is the process of managing, deploying and scaling containerised applications. Kubernetes, or K8s, is the most dominant container orchestration engine right now. It was created by Google in 2014 and is presently managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

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