Getting started with Kubernetes
What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes is a "container-orchestration system" which was open-sourced by Google in 2014. In simple terms, it makes it easier for us to manage containers by automating various tasks. If you are not familiar with containers, checkout my other blog . Why use Kubernetes? A container-orchestration engine is used to automate deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications on a group of servers. As I mentioned above, Kubernetes makes it easier for us to manage containers and ensure that there is no downtime. To give you an example, suppose one of the containers that you are running went down, it won’t take much effort to restart it manually. But suppose a large number of containers went down, wouldn’t it be easier if the system handles this issue automatically? Kubernetes can do this for us. Some of the features include scheduling, scaling, load balancing, fault tolerance, deployment, automated rollouts, and rollbacks, etc. Kubernetes Architecture...