What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is a platform that encompasses a huge number of services and capabilities that keeps growing. The core functionality is scheduling workloads in containers across your infrastructure, but it doesn’t stop there. Here are some of the other capabilities Kubernetes brings to the table:
- Providing authentication and authorization
- Debugging applications
- Accessing and ingesting logs
- Rolling updates
- Using Cluster Autoscaling
- Using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- Replicating application instances
- Checking application health and readiness
- Monitoring resources
- Balancing loads
- Naming and service discovery
- Distributing secrets
- Mounting storage systems
We will cover all these capabilities in great detail throughout the book. At this point, just absorb and appreciate how much value Kubernetes can add to your system.
Kubernetes has impressive scope, but it is also important...
