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# Features of Kubernetes - 1

## Scalability and Availability

Kubernetes **can scale effortlessly** and is **available throughout multi-deployments** due to the following points.

* Kube - master can be deployed in a highly available configuration.
* Multi-region deployments available
* 100 pods per node
* Supports 5000 node clusters
* Pods can be horizontally scaled via API

## Multi-host container scheduling: kube-scheduler

* Assigns pods to nodes at runtime
* Checks resources, QoS (Quality of Service), policies, user specifications before runtime