Welcome to the Kubernetes World

Unlike typical software that usually evolves piece by piece, Kubernetes got a kick-start as it was designed based on years of experience on Google's internal large-scale cluster management software such as Borg and Omega. That's to say, Kubernetes was born equipped with lots of best practices in the container orchestration and management field. Since day one, the team behind it understood the real pain points and came up with proper designs for tackling them. Concepts such as pods, one IP per pod, declarative APIs, and controller patterns, among others that were first introduced by Kubernetes, seemed to be a bit "impracticable", and some people at that time might have questioned their real value. However, 5 years later, those design rationales remain unchanged and have proven to be the key differentiators from other software.

Kubernetes resolves all the challenges mentioned in the previous section. Some of the well-known features...