Container orchestration frameworks

Let's go up one abstraction layer from containers. Containers include everything required to run specific services as stateless, self-contained artifacts. However, the containers need to be orchestrated to run in the correct network, being able to communicate with other services and being started with the correct configuration, if required. The straightforward approach is to develop home-grown scripts that run the required containers. However, in order to realize a more flexible solution that also enables production-readiness such as zero-downtime, the use of container orchestration frameworks is advisable.

Container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, DC/OS or Docker Compose are not only responsible to run containers, but to orchestrate, connect and configure them appropriately. The same motivations and principles apply that are true for container technologies as well: automation, reproducibility and IaC. Software engineers define the desired target...