# kubernetes/kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

Repository: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kubernetes-kubernetes
Homepage: https://kubernetes.io
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: kubernetes, go, cncf, containers
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:35:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4471, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 88}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 125208, forks 43922 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:24.169666+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, scheduling, service-discovery, api-gateway, load-testing, monitoring, self-hosted, infrastructure-as-code, microservices
- domain: cloud-computing, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, self-hosted, networking
- platform: windows, cloud, self-hosted, go, cross-platform
- tags: kubernetes, container-scheduling, orchestration, cncf, cluster-management, pods, declarative-configuration, autoscaling, service-mesh-adjacent, containers, devops, storage, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- kubernetes/kubernetes (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:24.169666+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:11:33.235074+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:24.169666+00:00, sha 5f84cf09ef32)
  - homepage: https://kubernetes.io (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.414722+00:00, sha df2444fc678d)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.423642+00:00, sha 19250dc5ff78)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.427804+00:00, sha 0f90130a6782)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.429440+00:00, sha aa9310fcc1ea)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.433168+00:00, sha 952ebb9e0cbe)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.434783+00:00, sha 9b12930ed017)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.436485+00:00, sha 85aa69bfc8db)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/releases (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.426185+00:00, sha b09acd589ea9)
  - site_page: https://kubernetes.io/releases/download/ (fetched 2026-08-28T17:28:09.431296+00:00, sha 9ff73492ac7a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.