A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes

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A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes

Kubernetes, often referred to as k8s, is an open source container orchestration system that helps deploy and manage containerized applications. Developed by Google starting in 2014 and written in the Go language, Kubernetes is quickly becoming the standard way to architect horizontally-scalable applications.

This guide is the parent to the five-part series of Beginner’s Guides to Kubernetes:

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