Kubernetes - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Kubernetes is the de facto container orchestrator: you declare desired state and it continuously reconciles the cluster toward it.
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that schedules containers onto nodes, manages their networking and storage, and keeps declared workloads running through self-healing and scaling.
Many CI pipelines target Kubernetes as their deploy destination. Knowing its core objects (pods, deployments, services) helps you read what a kubectl apply step is doing.
Declarative model
You submit manifests describing desired state, and controllers reconcile actual state toward it. A CI deploy is usually just kubectl apply or a Helm upgrade against a cluster.
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