Kubernetes and Akka Cluster are complementary technologies for building reactive and resilient distributed systems. Kubernetes provides infrastructure-level capabilities for container orchestration, resource provisioning, and deployment, while Akka Cluster enables location transparency and resilience at the application level through its actor programming model. Together, they allow applications to scale elastically across infrastructure and recover from failures at multiple granularities. While Kubernetes makes applications distributed, Akka Cluster helps make them reactive through its support for asynchronous messaging and distributed, resilient actors.