Kubernetes is abbreviated as “K8s” to shorten it’s length. There are 8 characters in “Kubernetes” between the first letter “K” and the last letter “s”.
There are a few other places in the software industry where you might have noticed this style of abbreviation: I saw it first in “i18n” for “internationalization” (from where it seems to have started). There’s also l10n for “localization”.
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