Kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Orchestration
- Also known as
- kubernetes
What is Kubernetes?
An open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Kubernetes pricing
We don't have Kubernetes's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Kubernetes does
The capabilities that matter for container orchestration tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Orchestration scope
- Kubernetes
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- OCI / CRI compliant
- -
- CNCF Certified Kubernetes conformant
- -
- Rootless operation
- -
- Daemonless architecture
- -
- Windows containers
- -
- ARM architecture support
- -
- GPU scheduling
- -
- Stateful workloads
- ✓
- Built-in networking / CNI
- ✓
- Vendor-managed control plane
- -
- CNCF maturity
- -
- GUI dashboard
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Kubernetes alternatives
Other container orchestration tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Kubernetes, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.10 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 99 | 0.06 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 0.07 | 5.6 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 0.05 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.07 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 96 | 0.03 | 2.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.17 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 5 | 0.13 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 124,092 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","orchestration":"kubernetes","stateful_workloads":true,"built_in_networking_cni":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |