Pracę nad projektem Kubernetes rozpoczęli trzej inżynierowie Google: Joe Beda, Brendan Burns i Craig McLuckie. Później dołączyli do nich inni, w tym Brian Grant i Tim Hockin<ref>{{Cytuj |autor = Cade Metz |tytuł = Google Made Its Secret Blueprint Public to Boost Its Cloud |czasopismo = Wired |data = 2015-06-10 |data dostępu = 2019-08-13 |issn = 1059-1028 |url = https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-kubernetes-says-future-cloud-computing/}}</ref>. W połowie 2014 roku firma Google ogłosiła pierwsze wydanie platformy. Duży wpływ na rozwój projektu miał opracowany w Google system Borg<ref>{{Cytuj |data dostępu = 2019-08-21 |opublikowany = ai.google |url = https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43438}}</ref><ref>{{Cytuj |tytuł = Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - ACM Queue |data dostępu = 2019-08-21 |opublikowany = queue.acm.org |url = https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444}}</ref>. Oryginalna nazwa kodowa Kubernetes w Google to Projekt Siedem z Dziewięciu (ang. ''Project Seven of Nine''), co jest odniesieniem do fikcyjnej [[Siedem z Dziewięciu|postaci z serialu Star Trek o tej samej nazwie]], która jest "bardziej przyjaznym" Borgiem<ref>{{Cytuj |tytuł = Early Stage Startup Heptio Aims to Make Kubernetes Friendly |data dostępu = 2019-08-21 |opublikowany = eWEEK |url = https://www.eweek.com/cloud/early-stage-startup-heptio-aims-to-make-kubernetes-friendly}}</ref>. Siedem szprych na kole logo Kubernetes odnosi się właśnie do tego kryptonimu. Oryginalny projekt Borg został napisany w całości w języku C ++, ale przepisany system Kubernetes jest zaimplementowany w Go.
Kubernetes v1.0 został wydany 21 lipca 2015 roku. W tym czasie przy współpracy z [[Linux Foundation]] powstała także organizacja Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)<ref>{{Cytuj |tytuł = As Kubernetes Hits 1.0, Google Donates Technology To Newly Formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation |data dostępu = 2019-08-21 |opublikowany = TechCrunch |url = http://social.techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/as-kubernetes-hits-1-0-google-donates-technology-to-newly-formed-cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-ibm-intel-twitter-and-others/ |język = en-US}}</ref>. Wraz6 zmarca wersją2018 Kubernetesroku v1.0projekt GoogleKubernetes współpracowałozajął zdziewiąte Linuxmiejsce Foundation,w tworząccommitach Cloudna NativeGitHub Computingoraz Foundationdrugie (CNCF)miejsce [12]w autorach i zaoferowałowydaniach Kubernetesdotyczących jakojądra technologięLinuksa<ref>{{Cytuj początkową.|autor 6= marcaSarah 2018Conway r.|tytuł = Kubernetes Is First CNCF Project zająłTo dziewiąteGraduate miejsce|data w= commitach2018-03-06 na|data GitHubdostępu oraz= drugie2019-08-21 miejsce|opublikowany w= autorachCloud iNative wydaniachComputing dotyczącychFoundation jądra|url Linuksa= https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/06/kubernetes-first-cncf-project-graduate/ [13]|język = en-US}}</ref>.
founded by Joe Beda, Brendan Burns and Craig McLuckie,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-kubernetes-says-future-cloud-computing/|title=Google Made Its Secret Blueprint Public to Boost Its Cloud|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-27|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701040235/http://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-kubernetes-says-future-cloud-computing/|archivedate=2016-07-01|df=}}</ref> who were quickly joined by other Google engineers including Brian Grant and Tim Hockin, and was first announced by Google in mid-2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-kubernetes/|website=Wired|accessdate=24 September 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910171929/http://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-kubernetes|archivedate=10 September 2015|df=}}</ref> Its development and design are heavily influenced by Google's Borg system,<ref name="borg_paper">{{cite journal|author1=Abhishek Verma|author2=Luis Pedrosa|author3=Madhukar R. Korupolu|author4=David Oppenheimer|author5=Eric Tune|author6=John Wilkes|title=Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg|journal=Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys)|date=April 21–24, 2015|url=https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727090712/https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html|archivedate=2017-07-27|df=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444|title=Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes - ACM Queue|website=queue.acm.org|access-date=2016-06-27|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709023750/http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444|archivedate=2016-07-09|df=}}</ref> and many of the top contributors to the project previously worked on Borg. The original codename for Kubernetes within Google was Project Seven of Nine, a reference to a [[Seven of Nine|Star Trek character of the same name]] that is a "friendlier" [[Borg (Star Trek)|Borg]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.eweek.com/cloud/early-stage-startup-heptio-aims-to-make-kubernetes-friendly.html|title=Early Stage Startup Heptio Aims to Make Kubernetes Friendly|access-date=2016-12-06}}</ref> The seven spokes on the wheel of the Kubernetes logo are a reference to that codename. The original Borg project was written entirely in C++<ref name="borg_paper" />, but the rewritten Kubernetes system is implemented in [[Go (programming language)|Go]].
Kubernetes v1.0 was released on July 21, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=As Kubernetes Hits 1.0, Google Donates Technology To Newly Formed Cloud Native Computing Foundation|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/as-kubernetes-hits-1-0-google-donates-technology-to-newly-formed-cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-ibm-intel-twitter-and-others/|website=TechCrunch|accessdate=24 September 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923060338/http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/21/as-kubernetes-hits-1-0-google-donates-technology-to-newly-formed-cloud-native-computing-foundation-with-ibm-intel-twitter-and-others/|archivedate=23 September 2015|df=}}</ref> Along with the Kubernetes v1.0 release, Google partnered with the [[Linux Foundation]] to form the [[Linux Foundation#Cloud Native Computing Foundation|Cloud Native Computing Foundation]] (CNCF)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cncf.io/|title=Cloud Native Computing Foundation|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703085502/https://www.cncf.io/|archivedate=2017-07-03|df=}}</ref> and offered Kubernetes as a seed technology. On March 6, 2018, Kubernetes Project reached ninth place in commits at GitHub, and second place in authors and issues to the [[Linux kernel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/06/kubernetes-first-cncf-project-graduate/|title=Kubernetes Is First CNCF Project To Graduate|access-date=3 December 2018|last=Conway|first=Sarah|website=[[Cloud Native Computing Foundation]]|language=en|quote=Compared to the 1.5 million projects on GitHub, Kubernetes is No. 9 for commits and No. 2 for authors/issues, second only to Linux.|format=html|deadurl=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029081848/https://www.cncf.io/blog/2018/03/06/kubernetes-first-cncf-project-graduate/|archive-date=29 October 2018}}</ref>
