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Understand how Kubernetes provides a flexible runtime for Docker containers with features like service discovery and load balancing. Learn the trade-offs between Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Compose, and how frontend integration and message-oriented middleware operate within Kubernetes environments.

Kubernetes offers a runtime environment for Docker containers and is very flexible.

MOMs in Kubernetes #

The example in this chapter uses communication with REST. Of course, it is also possible to operate a MOM like Kafka (chapter 7) in Kubernetes.

However, MOMs store transmitted messages to guarantee delivery. Kafka even saves the complete history. Reliable storage of data in a Kubernetes cluster ...