Keepalived is a framework that provides high-availability and load balancing to Linux systems. In MCP, Keepalived provides a virtual IP address that network clients use as a main entry point to access the CI/CD services distributed between nodes.
Kibana is an open-source plugin for Elasticsearch that enables vizualization of real-time analytics and data charting.
Kubernetes (K8s) is a container orchestration software that combines containers related to one application into a group and provides means to deploy, maintain, and scale the containerized applications across multiple hosts.
The Kubernetes Master Tier runs the services required for container orchestration such as kubelet, kube-apiserver, and so on, as well as the key-value store and networking components required for Kubernetes operation. The Kubernetes Master Tier runs separately from all virtualized components, on dedicated physical servers called Kubernetes Master nodes.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM, is a virtualization platform that provides tools to create hypervisor infrastructure based on Linux kernel.