kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 4471
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 88
Adoption not part of the score
125208 stars · 43922 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of hosts. It provides declarative configuration, service discovery, load balancing, storage orchestration, and automated rollouts and rollbacks, and is hosted by the CNCF.
Use cases
- orchestrate containerized applications across multiple hosts
- automate deployment and scaling of microservices
- run a production-grade container cluster on-premises or in the cloud
- manage rolling updates and rollbacks of applications with zero downtime
- provide service discovery and load balancing for pods
- provision and manage persistent storage for stateful workloads
- schedule workloads across a cluster based on resource requirements
- self-host a scalable platform for distributed systems
When to choose
- you need to run and scale containerized applications in production across many machines
- you want declarative, automated deployment, scaling, and self-healing of workloads
- you need built-in service discovery, load balancing, and storage orchestration
- you want a portable platform that runs on-premises, hybrid, or in public clouds
- you are building microservices and need automated rollouts, rollbacks, and canary deployments
When to avoid
- you are running a single container or a very small application where a VM or simple process manager suffices
- your team lacks the operational capacity to learn and maintain a complex orchestration platform
- you only need lightweight local development without cluster semantics (e.g., plain Docker Compose)
- you cannot tolerate the resource overhead of running cluster control-plane components
Facets
application · maturity stable
container-orchestration deployment scheduling service-discovery api-gateway load-testing monitoring self-hosted infrastructure-as-code microservices cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices self-hosted networking windows cloud self-hosted go cross-platform kubernetes container-scheduling orchestration cncf cluster-management pods declarative-configuration autoscaling service-mesh-adjacent containers devops storage linux macos docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5f84cf09ef32
- homepage: https://kubernetes.io · fetched 2026-08-28 · df2444fc678d
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 19250dc5ff78
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0f90130a6782
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · aa9310fcc1ea
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 952ebb9e0cbe
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9b12930ed017
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 85aa69bfc8db
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/releases · fetched 2026-08-28 · b09acd589ea9
- site_page: https://kubernetes.io/releases/download/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9ff73492ac7a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kubernetes/kubernetes | main | 95 |
For agents
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