Kubernetes simplifies the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications in cloud environments.It automates tasks like infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus on application code.Kubernetes facilitates consistent application running across different environments, irrespective of the underlying hardware.Automating application deployment is a key feature of Kubernetes, utilizing declarative configuration files to define the application state.Kubernetes scales applications automatically, offering horizontal and vertical scaling mechanisms based on metrics like CPU usage.Its Horizontal Pod Autoscaler adjusts pod replicas in real-time, optimizing resource usage.Kubernetes supports Cluster Autoscaling to automatically scale the underlying infrastructure based on resource demands.The platform ensures self-healing and fault tolerance by monitoring service health and taking corrective actions.Service discovery is simplified with Kubernetes providing DNS-based internal service discovery.Kubernetes offers load balancing to distribute traffic across healthy instances for high availability and resource efficiency.