Containers and Kubernetes

Cloud-native patterns and new cloud operating systems based on containers and Kubernetes have been growing rapidly over the past few years. Together with solutions through the viable ecosystem of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF - https://www.cncf.io/), they have changed the development, delivery, and life cycle management of modern software.

Containers and Kubernetes have become the important cornerstones of building, running, and managing cloud services and applications. Like virtual machines (VMs), containers enable applications to share the OS kernel. Compared to VMs, a running container is less resource-intensive but retains isolation, thus improving resource utilization.

Containers are decoupled from the underlying infrastructure and portable across cloud and on-premises environments. Containers are created from images to produce identical environments across development, testing, and production deployments. Containers provide a good...