Ensuring efficiency and scalability

This section focuses on ways to boost efficiency and scalability in Kubernetes. It discusses stateless design, adopting microservices, cluster auto-scaling, and different scaling strategies.

Designing for statelessness and scalability

Creating applications that are both stateless and scalable is a core principle in Kubernetes design that aims to enhance the efficiency and responsiveness of services. This approach involves structuring applications in a way that minimizes their reliance on internal state, which, in turn, facilitates easy scaling and management.

In stateless application design, each request to the application must contain all the information necessary to process it. This means the application doesn’t rely on information from previous interactions or maintain a persistent state between requests. This design is inherently scalable as any instance of the application can handle any request, allowing for easy horizontal scaling...