Understanding Kubernetes

Kubernetes

Let’s say you’ve played the container game for a while now and you get the gist of how Docker works. You’ve brought up a few containers and have now found yourself with dozens or even hundreds of containers to manage in production. You now have a new problem. You no longer need to learn how to build images and run containers, but you now need to orchestrate them.

Containers, by themselves, have limited scalability in any environment. The Docker engine, for example, can be used to create containers. But Docker can’t create exact replicas of the same container. Once you learn more about containers and attempt to manage them at scale, you’ll find multiple issues like the aforementioned one.

You need a way to orchestrate containers at a scale by incorporating redundancy, automation, and resiliency. For example, when you create a Docker container and it fails, all services fail without the orchestration of ...