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Kubernetes (K8s) is an open source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

It groups containers into logical units called pods and runs them on a cluster of machines, providing benefits like self-healing, automatic rollouts, and load balancing to manage complexity and ensure high availability.

Automated deployment and scaling - Automates the process of deploying and scaling applications across a cluster of machines.
Self-healing - Automatically restarts or replaces failed containers, ensuring application uptime.
Load balancing and service discovery - Distributes network traffic across multiple container instances and helps containers find each other.
Portability - Allows applications to be deployed and managed consistently across different infrastructures, including on-premises and various cloud providers.
Resource management - Manages the allocation of compute resources and ensures applications run efficiently.
Rollouts and rollbacks - Automates application rollouts and provides the ability to automatically roll back to a previous version if something goes wrong.