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Kubernetes builds upon <a href="http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444">15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google</a>, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.</p> </div> </div> <div class="main-section"> <div class="image-wrapper"><img src="/_common-resources/images/scalable.svg" alt=""></div> <div class="content"> <h4 id="planet-scale">Planet Scale</h4> <p>Designed on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.</p> </div> </div> <div class="main-section"> <div class="image-wrapper"><img src="/_common-resources/images/blocks.svg" alt=""></div> <div class="content"> <h4 id="never-outgrow">Never Outgrow</h4> <p>Whether testing locally or running a global enterprise, Kubernetes flexibility grows with you to deliver your applications consistently and easily no matter how complex your need is.</p> </div> </div> <div class="main-section"> <div class="image-wrapper"><img src="/_common-resources/images/suitcase.svg" alt=""></div> <div class="content"> <h4 id="run-k8s-anywhere">Run K8s Anywhere</h4> <p>Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure, letting you effortlessly move workloads to where it matters to you.</p> <p>To download Kubernetes, visit the <a href="/releases/download/">download</a> section.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section id="video" style="background-image: url(https://kubernetes.io/_common-resources/images/kub_video_banner_homepage.jpg); "> <div class="light-text"> <h2>The Challenges of Migrating 150+ Microservices to Kubernetes</h2> <p>By Sarah Wells, Technical Director for Operations and Reliability, Financial Times</p> <button id="desktopShowVideoButton" onclick="kub.showVideo()">Watch Video</button> <br> <br> <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/" button id="desktopKCButton">Attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe on March 19-22, 2024</a> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2024/" button id="desktopKCButton">Attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America on November 12-15, 2024</a> </div> <div id="videoPlayer"> <iframe data-url="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H06qrNmGqyE?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <button id="closeButton"></button> </div> </section> <section id="features"> <div class="main-section"> <h3 class="center">Kubernetes Features</h3> <div class="feature-box"> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/">Automated rollouts and rollbacks</a></h4> Kubernetes progressively rolls out changes to your application or its configuration, while monitoring application health to ensure it doesn't kill all your instances at the same time. If something goes wrong, Kubernetes will rollback the change for you. Take advantage of a growing ecosystem of deployment solutions. </div> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/">Service discovery and load balancing</a></h4> No need to modify your application to use an unfamiliar service discovery mechanism. Kubernetes gives Pods their own IP addresses and a single DNS name for a set of Pods, and can load-balance across them. </div> </div> <div class="feature-box"> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/">Storage orchestration</a></h4> Automatically mount the storage system of your choice, whether from local storage, a public cloud provider, or a network storage system such as iSCSI or NFS. </div> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicaset/#how-a-replicaset-works">Self-healing</a></h4> Restarts containers that fail, replaces and reschedules containers when nodes die, kills containers that don't respond to your user-defined health check, and doesn't advertise them to clients until they are ready to serve. </div> </div> <div class="feature-box"> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/">Secret and configuration management</a></h4> Deploy and update Secrets and application configuration without rebuilding your image and without exposing Secrets in your stack configuration. </div> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/">Automatic bin packing</a></h4> Automatically places containers based on their resource requirements and other constraints, while not sacrificing availability. Mix critical and best-effort workloads in order to drive up utilization and save even more resources. </div> </div> <div class="feature-box"> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/">Batch execution</a></h4> In addition to services, Kubernetes can manage your batch and CI workloads, replacing containers that fail, if desired. </div> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/tasks/run-application/horizontal-pod-autoscale/">Horizontal scaling</a></h4> Scale your application up and down with a simple command, with a UI, or automatically based on CPU usage. </div> </div> <div class="feature-box"> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/services-networking/dual-stack/">IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack</a></h4> Allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to Pods and Services </div> <div> <h4><a href="/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/">Designed for extensibility</a></h4> Add features to your Kubernetes cluster without changing upstream source code. </div> </div> </section> <section id="talkToUs"> <div class="main-section"> <h3 style="text-align: center"><a href="/case-studies/" style="color: #3371E3; font-weight: 400">Case Studies</a></h3> <div id="caseStudiesWrapper"> <div> <img src="/case-studies/babylon/babylon_featured_logo.svg" alt="babylon_featured_logo.svg"> <p>"Kubernetes is a great platform for machine learning because it comes with all the scheduling and …"</p> <a href="/case-studies/babylon/">Read more</a> </div> <div> <img src="/case-studies/booz-allen/booz-allen-featured-logo.svg" alt="booz-allen-featured-logo.svg"> <p>"Kubernetes is a great solution for us. 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