Overview

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that manages containerized applications across in-cloud hosts. It offers a framework for deploying, scheduling, updating, and managing applications and makes containerized application deployment easy and efficient.

For application developers, Kubernetes can be thought of as a cluster operating system. Kubernetes provides functions such as service discovery, scaling, load balancing, self-healing, and even leader election, freeing developers from infrastructure-related configurations.

You can access our hosted Kubernetes service, Cloud Container Engine (CCE), by using the CCE console, kubectl, or Kubernetes APIs. Before using CCE, familiarize yourself with the following Kubernetes concepts.