Chapter 5
Containers, Container Orchestration, and Cloud Native Realities
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
In this chapter, we take on the concepts of containers and container orchestration, which currently refer to Docker-style containers and Kubernetes container orchestration for the most part. Today’s containers definition is closest to the way Docker defined them a few years ago, which came from the concept of containerization that has been around for decades. Container orchestration, simply put, is the ability to take groupings of containers and run them in parallel so that they can do more at the same time. Kubernetes is currently the most popular mechanism for ...
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