GKE

Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads declaratively for configuration and automation. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek and means helmsman or pilot.

Kubernetes is well known for its abbreviation—K8s. K8s stands for K in Kubernetes, 8 is the count between the letters K and s, and s is the last letter from the word Kubernetes.

Google open sourced Kubernetes in 2014, combining more than 15 years of Google experience running containerized workloads. Kubernetes originates from Borg, an internal tool for orchestrating containers at Google.

To learn more about the history of Borg and Kubernetes, visit the following link: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes/.

GKE is a container orchestration platform. It is a managed service offered by Google Cloud that offers autoscaling and multi-cluster support.

The following section will talk about the differences between traditional, virtualized, and containerized...