Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source platform used to deploy, manage, scale, and operate containerized applications.
If Docker gives you a container, Kubernetes manages many containers across machines.
Docker → runs containers
Kubernetes → manages containers at scale
Suppose you have a backend application running in containers.
You may need to:
Doing all of this manually becomes difficult.
Kubernetes automates much of this.
A cluster is the complete Kubernetes environment.
It consists mainly of: