What is Kubernetes and why does it matter so much

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Anyone who works in IT, in any capacity connected to software will have heard Kubernetes more than once.

While the answer is obvious to anyone in the prog/dev space and many people outside, for others it’s really unclear. People keep trying to explain it to me but it sounds like gibberish. please ?

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The simplest analogy I’ve heard (to be fair you need to already be familiar with the concept of docker images etc) is that’s if you imagine docker containers as ACTUAL shipping containers, then kurbenetes is the SHIP those containers have been loaded onto.

The name kurbenetes itself comes from the ancient greek for helmsman/pilot, so clearly Google had this analogy in mind when they created it.

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