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Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managingcontainerized applicationsacross multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance,and scaling of applications.

Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience at Google runningproduction workloads at scale using a system calledBorg,combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

Kubernetes is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).If your company wants to help shape the evolution oftechnologies that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled,and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF.For details about who's involved and how Kubernetes plays a role,read the CNCFannouncement.

See our documentation onkubernetes.io.

Try ourinteractive tutorial.

Take a free course onScalable Microservices with Kubernetes.

To use Kubernetes code as a library in other applications, see thelist of published components.Use of thek8s.io/kubernetes module ork8s.io/kubernetes/... packages as libraries is not supported.

Thecommunity repository hosts all information aboutbuilding Kubernetes from source, how to contribute codeand documentation, who to contact about what, etc.

If you want to build Kubernetes right away there are two options:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/k8s.iocd $GOPATH/src/k8s.iogit clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetescd kubernetesmake

git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetescd kubernetesmake quick-release

For the full story, head over to thedeveloper's documentation.

If you need support, start with thetroubleshooting guide,and work your way through the process that we've outlined.

That said, if you have questions, reach out to usone way or another.