(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
Starting with version 1.19: 4 minor versions (12 months)
Older versions: 3 minor versions (9 months)
Part of the Linux Foundation
Governs the contained projects
16 graduated projects
31 incubated projects
70 sandbox projects
The container orchestrator
Leader
First graduated project in CNCF
Very active ecosystem