Getting started with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source tool, originally developed by Google. It is described as:

"A tool for automating deployment, operations, and scaling of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon a decade and a half of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community." http://www.kubernetes.io

While it is not the exact tool that Google uses to deploy their containers internally, it has been built from the ground up to offer the same functionality. Google is also slowly transitioning to internally use Kubernetes themselves. It is designed around the following three principles:

• Planet scale: Designed on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your ops team

• Never outgrow: Whether testing locally or running a global...