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An open-source container orchestration platform for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Originally developed by Google, Kubernetes (K8s) has become the standard for container orchestration. It provides declarative configuration, self-healing, horizontal scaling, and service discovery. Key components include pods, services, deployments, and namespaces.

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Quantum Entanglement

A quantum mechanical phenomenon where particles become correlated so that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently.

Tensor Core

Specialized processing units in NVIDIA GPUs designed for matrix operations common in deep learning.

GitOps

An operational framework that uses Git repositories as the single source of truth for infrastructure and application configurations.

Kernel

The core component of an operating system that manages system resources and provides services to applications.

Qubit

The fundamental unit of quantum information, analogous to a classical bit but capable of existing in superposition states.

CUDA

NVIDIA's parallel computing platform and programming model for general computing on GPUs.