Kubernetes Background
Explore the fundamentals of Kubernetes by understanding its role as an orchestrator of containerized, cloud-native microservices applications. Learn how Kubernetes deploys, scales, and self-heals apps packaged in containers, while grasping key concepts like containerization, cloud-native features, and microservice architecture to build a strong foundation for advanced Kubernetes topics.
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Kubernetes is an orchestrator of containerized cloud-native microservices apps.
That’s a lot of jargon, so let’s explain things.
What is an orchestrator?
An orchestrator is a system or platform that deploys applications and dynamically responds to changes. For example, Kubernetes can:
- Deploy applications
- Scale them up and down based on demand
- Self-heal them when things break
- Perform zero-downtime rolling updates and rollbacks
The best part is that it does all this without requiring our involvement. We need to configure a few things in the ...