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Overview
Developed byGoogle
Maintained byCloud Native Computing Foundation
Founded2014
LicenseApache 2.0
Open source✓ Open Source
Primary languageGo
Use casecontainer orchestration
Technical
Protocols
YAMLREST APIHTTPTCPgRPC
Also see
Based onGoogle Borg
Competes with
Docker SwarmApache Mesos
Knowledge graph stats
Claims28
Avg confidence95%
Avg freshness100%
Last updatedUpdated yesterday
WikidataQ22661306
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Kubernetes

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Open-source container orchestration system originally designed by Google

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supports protocol

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
YAML○UnverifiedHighFresh1
REST API○UnverifiedHighFresh1
HTTP○UnverifiedHighFresh1
TCP○UnverifiedHighFresh1
gRPC○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

requires

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container runtime○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Linux○UnverifiedHighFresh1

primary use case

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container orchestration○UnverifiedHighFresh1
container orchestration and management○UnverifiedHighFresh1
automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications○UnverifiedHighFresh1

pricing model

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
free○UnverifiedHighFresh1

integrates with

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Prometheus○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Helm○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Docker○UnverifiedHighFresh1
containerd○UnverifiedHighFresh1

maintained by

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Cloud Native Computing Foundation○UnverifiedHighFresh1

programming language

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Go○UnverifiedHighFresh1

open source

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true○UnverifiedHighFresh1

license type

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Apache 2.0○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Apache License 2.0○UnverifiedHighFresh1

developed by

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Google○UnverifiedHighFresh1

founded year

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
2014○UnverifiedHighFresh1

competes with

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Docker Swarm○UnverifiedHighFresh1
Apache Mesos○UnverifiedModerateFresh1

based on

ValueTrustConfidenceFreshnessSources
Google Borg○UnverifiedHighFresh1

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Claim count: 28Last updated: 4/9/2026Edit history