Kubernetes Achieves First Flight On Military Aircraft

U-2S
Credit: U.S. Air Force
In a first for a military weapon system, the U.S. Air Force ran the Kubernetes orchestration tool for cloud native microservice containers on a Lockheed Martin U-2S in flight on Sept. 22, Air Combat Command announced. The use of Kubernetes allowed the U-2S’ mission systems to run advanced machine...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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