What is Kubernetes Kubernetes (Often denoted by K8's) is an Open Source container orchestration system for automated deployments of application Docker containers. It was originally developed by Google. It is different from Docker in the sense that Docker is a Container Platform and Kubernates helps in managing the dependencies in the containers. Docker is an open source platform for creating Containers. Containers contain the application code which can be run on any docker platform. Containers are different from Virtual Machines. Containers will generally contain application code, bin and libraries. But Virtual machines contain Applications as wells as Guest Operating systems Docker Container Virtual Machine Application Bins/libs Docker OS Application Bins/libs Guest OS Hypervisor Main OS