DevOps Classroom Series – 04/Apr/2021

Kubernetes (k8s)

• k8s is a portable, extensible, opensource platform for managing containerized workloads and services.
• It facilitates both declarative configuration and automation
• k8s provides
  • Service discovery and load balancing
  • Storage Orchestration
  • Automated rollouts and rollbacks
  • Automatic bin packing
  • Self healing
  • Secret and configuration management
• Kubernetes is very popular container orchestration platform
• To know more about kubernetes Refer Here
• All major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure have native kubernetes support
• Cattle vs Pets
  • Article Refer Here
• Refer Here for official documentation on kubernetes components
• Basic components of k8s