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title: OpenTelemetry with Kubernetes
linkTitle: Kubernetes
weight: 350
description: Using OpenTelemetry with Kubernetes
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## Introduction

[Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) is an open source system for automating
deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It has become
a widely-adopted, industry tool, leading to an increased need for observability
tooling. In response, OpenTelemetry has created many different tools to help
Kubernetes users observe their clusters and services.
