# History

This project was originally spun out from [dask-kubernetes](https://github.com/dask/dask-kubernetes) which provides utilities for deploying [Dask](https://www.dask.org/) clusters on Kubernetes.

The `dask-kubernetes` project used a mix of [kubernetes](https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python), [kubernetes-asyncio](https://github.com/tomplus/kubernetes_asyncio) and [pykube-ng](https://codeberg.org/hjacobs/pykube-ng) (and some subprocess calls to [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/)) to interact with the Kubernetes API. It also contained a whole load of glue code to work around missing features and get everything working together.

To improve maintenance and code reuse `kr8s` was born to extract the Kubernetes library code in `dask-kubernetes` and replace it with something simpler and more complete. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to `dask-kubernetes` and we hope you contribute to `kr8s` too.