Kubernetes · K8s
The dominant open-source container orchestration platform, increasingly used to schedule AI inference and training.
Current numbers
~70% / ~20% / ~10%AI/HPC scheduler share: Slurm / Kubernetes / in-house (rule of thumb)
GA in 1.34Core Kubernetes DRA graduated to stable in 1.34, released 27 August 2025
~90% K8s / ~50% SlurmGPU-cloud customers using K8s for inference vs Slurm for training