1. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes

Kubernetes has become the leading standard in container orchestration. Since its inception in 2014, it has gained tremendous popularity. It has been adopted by start-ups as well as major enterprises, and the major public cloud vendors all offer a managed Kubernetes service.

Kubernetes builds upon the success of the Docker container revolution. Docker is both a company and the name of a technology. Docker as a technology is the standard way of creating and running software containers, often called Docker containers. A container itself is a way of packaging software that makes it easy to run that software on any platform, ranging from your laptop to a server in a data center, to a cluster running in the public cloud.

Docker is also the name of the company behind the Docker technology. Although the core technology is open source, the Docker company focuses on reducing complexity for developers through a number of commercial offerings...