Summary: Kubernetes Ecosystem

Recap

At the top of the chapter, we said that Kubernetes is an orchestrator of cloud-native microservices applications.

Now that we’ve explained the jargon, you know this means “Kubernetes runs and manages applications comprised of small specialized parts that can self-heal, scale, and be updated independently without downtime.” Those specialized parts are called microservices, and each one is usually deployed in its own container.

However, that’s still a lot, and you don’t need to understand everything yet. We’ll continue explaining things, and we’ll get hands-on with lots of examples that will help.