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:
- Mounting storage systems
- Distributing secrets
- Checking application health and readiness
- Replicating application instances
- Using the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- Using Cluster Autoscaling
- Naming and service discovery
- Balancing loads
- Rolling updates
- Monitoring resources
- Accessing and ingesting logs
- Debugging applications
- Providing authentication and authorization
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.
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