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Kubernetes

Explore the Kubernetes system, its origins, and how it manages distributed clusters by coordinating worker and manager nodes. Understand roles, cluster resources like pods and persistent volumes, and how Kubernetes maintains desired state and high availability using etcd.

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Kubernetes is a system that Google initially designed, inspired by a similar system called Borg, which was designed and developed by Verma et al.A. Verma, L. Pedrosa, M. R. Korupolu, D. Oppenheimer, E. Tune, and J. Wilkes, “Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg,” Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Systems, Eurosys, 2015. and Burns et al.B. Burns, B. Grant, D. Oppenheimer, E. Brewer, and J. Wilkes, “Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes,” ACM Queue, volume 14, pages 70-93, 2016, 2016.. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains Kubernetes. It manages a cluster of nodes and other resources (e.g., disks), handling all the aspects of running software in the cluster, such as deployment, scaling, and discovery.

Kubernetes cluster

A Kubernetes cluster ...