Kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management observed · 2026-10-20
Health v2 · maintenance only
94/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 84
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 4519
- days_rel: 27
- days_push: 1
- n_releases_24m: 88
Adoption not part of the score
128491 stars · 47475 forks observed · 2026-10-20
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-21, confidence 0.99
Kubernetes is an open‑source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across clusters of hosts. It provides a robust API, scheduling, service discovery, and self‑healing capabilities for production‑grade workloads.
Use cases
- deploy and scale containerized applications across multiple machines
- manage a cluster of Docker containers with automated rollouts and rollbacks
- implement self‑healing services that automatically replace failed pods
- orchestrate microservices with built‑in service discovery and load balancing
- run batch jobs and cron‑like workloads on a shared compute pool
When to choose
- You need a production‑ready, highly available orchestration platform for containers.
- Your workloads span multiple hosts and require automated scheduling, scaling, and health‑checking.
- You want a declarative API and ecosystem for managing complex microservice architectures.
When to avoid
- Your application is simple, single‑node, and can be managed with Docker Compose or a basic script.
- You have strict resource constraints that cannot accommodate the overhead of a full Kubernetes control plane.
- You prefer a managed service and do not want to operate the control plane yourself.
Facets
service · maturity active
container-runtime microservices deployment api-gateway service-discovery cloud-computing microservices infrastructure-as-code windows cloud self-hosted cncf go container-scheduling cluster-management k8s devops containers linux macos docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes · fetched 2026-10-20 · 5bc1025baba3
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kubernetes/kubernetes | main | 94 |
| kubernetes/website | docs | 89 |
| kubernetes/enhancements | infra | 77 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="kubernetes/kubernetes")
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