Kubernetes is a platform that encompasses a huge number of services and capabilities that keep growing. Its core functionality is its ability to schedule workloads in containers across your infrastructure, but it doesn't stop there. Here are some of the other capabilities Kubernetes brings to the table:
- Mounting storage systems
- Distributing secrets
- Checking application health
- Replicating application instances
- Using horizontal pod autoscaling
- Naming and discovering
- Balancing loads
- Rolling updates
- Monitoring resources
- Accessing and ingesting logs
- Debugging applications
- Providing authentication and authorization
