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 ### Signal rewriting
 
 dumb-init allows rewriting incoming signals before proxying them. This is
-useful in cases where you have a Docker supervisor (like Mesos or Kubernates)
+useful in cases where you have a Docker supervisor (like Mesos or Kubernetes)
 which always sends a standard signal (e.g. SIGTERM). Some apps require a
 different stop signal in order to do graceful cleanup.