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title: Kubernetes
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# Kubernetes
"Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery.<sup>1</sup>"

Kubernetes was orginally designed by Google Engineers and v1.0 was released on July 21, 2015. It is now maintained by the [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](https://www.cncf.io/).

### Links:
  * [Kubernetes on GitHub](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes)
  * [Kubernetes website](https://kubernetes.io)
  * [Kubernetes tutorial](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/)


### Sources:
  * The Kubernetes Authors, 2017, kubernetes.io. Accessed 27 Oct. 2017.
