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A person who develops and contributes code to the Kubernetes open source codebase.
A person who works to build the Kubernetes community (e.g. by organizing meetups).
A person who writes documentation for the Kubernetes project (e.g. this site).
A person who writes an application that runs in a Kubernetes cluster.
A person who configures, controls, and monitors clusters.

Kubernetes is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications. The open source project is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

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