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Introduction

Introduction

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It’s difficult to overstate the impact Kubernetes has had on the world of DevOps. Over the years since it was open-sourced by Google in 2014, Kubernetes has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity. In that period, Kubernetes has become the preeminent solution for orchestrating cloud-native container workloads, differentiating itself from a field of orchestrators such as Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm. By providing a common API over heterogeneous environments, Kubernetes has become the common tool for deploying applications across cloud and hybrid environments.

So, what is Kubernetes? According to its documentation, “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source ...