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Kubernetes
Industry-standard container orchestration platform for automated deployment and scaling
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
very steep
Maturity
mature
Languages: Go
Architecture: distributed, orchestration
When to Use
- +Microservices architecture
- +Cloud-native applications
- +Need auto-scaling
- +Multi-cloud strategy
When Not to Use
- -Simple applications
- -Small team
- -No ops expertise
- -Monolithic architecture
Strengths
- Industry standard
- Huge ecosystem
- Cloud portability
- Auto-scaling
- Self-healing
- Declarative config
Weaknesses
- Very complex
- Steep learning curve
- Resource overhead
- Over-engineering for simple apps
Operations
Maintenance
high
Monitoring
high
Backup/Recovery
complex
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Container Orchestration
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
mediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Microservices
- Cloud-native applications
- Multi-cloud deployments
- CI/CD automation
- Platform engineering
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