Understanding when to use Kubernetes

Kubernetes has been around for a while now as a container orchestration platform that adds several automation capabilities to container-based deployments. It was initially designed by Google and then released to the open source world in 2014. It is a powerful system that's capable of autoscaling (horizontally), auto-repairing, and automating how containers are managed and deployed while providing controlled rollouts and rollbacks. A useful introduction to Kubernetes is available at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/. It's a beast of a system and, for that reason, not the easiest thing to work with and set up on your own infrastructure (although this has been gradually changing). Kubernetes is complex enough to deserve its own book (in fact, there are several books out there on this subject exclusively). Therefore, it is outside the scope of this book to offer a comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes and...