Scalable
Scale to match demand. Kubernetes adjusts the number of running instances automatically based on CPU, memory, or your own metrics, and grows from a single laptop to thousands of nodes without changing how you work.
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Resilient
Kubernetes keeps your applications running, restarting containers that fail, rescheduling them when a node goes down, and routing traffic only to instances that are ready. Recovery happens automatically, often before anyone notices.
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Portable
Run the same way on a laptop, on-premises, or across public clouds. Kubernetes is open source with no vendor lock-in, so you can move workloads to wherever makes the most sense.
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Extensible
Kubernetes is a platform to build on. Define your own resource types, automate operations with custom controllers, and draw on a vast ecosystem of tools, all through the same API, without forking the core.
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Kubernetes Features
Automated rollouts and rollbacks
Kubernetes progressively rolls out changes to your application or its configuration, while monitoring application health to ensure it doesn't kill all your instances at the same time. If something goes wrong, Kubernetes will rollback the change for you. Take advantage of a growing ecosystem of deployment solutions.Service discovery and load balancing
No need to modify your application to use an unfamiliar service discovery mechanism. Kubernetes gives Pods their own IP addresses and a single DNS name for a set of Pods, and can load-balance across them.Storage orchestration
Automatically mount the storage system of your choice, whether from local storage, a public cloud provider, or a network storage system such as iSCSI or NFS.Secret and configuration management
Deploy and update Secrets and application configuration without rebuilding your image and without exposing Secrets in your stack configuration.Automatic bin packing
Automatically places containers based on their resource requirements and other constraints, while not sacrificing availability. Mix critical and best-effort workloads in order to drive up utilization and save even more resources.Batch execution
In addition to services, Kubernetes can manage your batch and CI workloads, replacing containers that fail, if desired.Self-healing
Kubernetes restarts containers that crash, replaces entire Pods where needed, reattaches storage in response to wider failures, and can integrate with node autoscalers to self-heal even at the node level.Horizontal scaling
Scale your application up and down with a simple command, with a UI, or automatically based on CPU usage.Vertical scaling
Automatically adjust resource requests and limits based on actual usage patterns.IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack
Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to Pods and ServicesDesigned for extensibility
Add features to your Kubernetes cluster without changing upstream source code.Case Studies
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