(Greek for helmsman)
Kubernetes is a container orchestrator
Initiated by Google
Version 1.0 was donated to the community in 2015
Governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Minor version every three months
3 minor versions (9 months)
Starting with version 1.19: 4 minor versions (12 months)
Part of the Linux Foundation
Governs the contained projects
15 graduated projects
21 incubated projects
60 sandbox projects
The container orchestrator
Leader
Very active ecosystem