Quick Answer
Kubernetes handles the hard parts of running microservices: automated deployment and rollouts, self-healing (restarts crashed services), horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, config and secret management, and resource allocation. It turns a cluster of machines into one logical platform for running containerized services reliably.
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Manages container lifecycle across clusters. Supports auto-scaling, rolling updates, and health checks. Provides namespace isolation, secrets management, and service discovery.
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