1. Introduction to containers and Kubernetes

Kubernetes has become the leading standard in container orchestration. Since its inception in 2014, Kubernetes has gained tremendous popularity. It has been adopted by start-ups as well as major enterprises, with all major public cloud vendors offering a managed Kubernetes service.

Kubernetes builds upon the success of the Docker container revolution. Docker is both a company and the name of a technology. Docker as a technology is the most common way of creating and running software containers, called Docker containers. A container is a way of packaging software that makes it easy to run that software on any platform, ranging from your laptop to a server in a datacenter to a cluster running in the public cloud.

Although the core technology is open source, the Docker company focuses on reducing complexity for developers through a number of commercial offerings.

Kubernetes takes containers to the next level. Kubernetes is a...