In the beginning

If you work in development or infrastructure in the IT industry, you have likely heard the name Kubernetes. It arrived on the scene in 2015, some eight years before we wrote this book.

Kubernetes started as a project in Google. Google is known for being a company that has embraced the cloud completely. All its products are cloud-focused. Just think about Gmail, possibly the most used cloud-based email product, and products such as Google Documents, Google Drive, and YouTube.

All of Google’s services run in containers. In an article at InfoQ from 2014, it was estimated that Google starts 2 billion containers a week. That means more than 3.300 containers every second. With these enormous numbers, it is no surprise that there is excellent expert knowledge about running and managing containers.

Internally, Google uses a system that is named Borg, aptly named after the alien group from Star Trek that assimilates everything into one central hive.

Kubernetes...