Kubernetes is a platform for managing containers across multiple hosts. It provides lots of management features for container-oriented applications, such as auto-scaling, rolling deployments, compute resources, and storage management. Like containers, it's designed to run anywhere, including on bare metal, in our data center, in the public cloud, or even in the hybrid cloud.
Kubernetes fulfills most application container operational needs. Its highlights include the following:
- Container deployment
- Persistent storage
- Container health monitoring
- Compute resource management
- Auto-scaling
- High availability by cluster federation
With Kubernetes, we can manage containerized applications easily. For example, by creating Deployment, we can roll out, roll over, or roll back selected containers (Chapter 9, Continuous Delivery) with just a single command. Containers...
