Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system that automates the scheduling, scaling, and maintenance of containers in any infrastructure environment. It provides a conductor-like function to manage containers, ensuring they start, stop, create, and destroy automatically as needed. Kubernetes can orchestrate containers on multiple clouds, facilitating multi-cloud deployments and migrations between platforms. The key components of a Kubernetes architecture include pods, which are deployable units that bundle containers together, controllers such as Deployments and ReplicaSets, nodes, clusters, namespaces, and services. These components work together to provide high availability, scalability, and automation in containerized environments. Monitoring in Kubernetes requires a rethink due to its dynamic nature, and tags and labels play a crucial role in providing visibility into the cluster and applications. With its complex architecture, Kubernetes introduces new monitoring challenges, but a Kubernetes-aware monitoring tool with service discovery can help overcome these hurdles.