Introducing Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestrator initially developed by Google. A container orchestrator is a piece of software that automatically manages (including provisioning, deployment, and scaling) containerized applications. Assuming an application uses containerized microservices, a container orchestration system provides the following features:
- Elastic orchestration (autoscaling): This involves automatically starting and stopping application services (containers) based on specific requirements and conditions – for example, launching multiple web server instances with an increasing number of requests and eventually terminating servers when the number of requests drops below a certain threshold
- Workload management: This involves optimally deploying and distributing application services across the underlying cluster to ensure mandatory dependencies and redundancy – for example, running a web server endpoint on each cluster...
