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J. BartlettCloud Native Applications with Docker and Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8876-4_5

5. The Cloud Native Philosophy

Jonathan Bartlett1  
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Tulsa, OK, USA
 

Kubernetes is a cloud-level operating system which ties together multiple physical machines into a cluster and manages running and networking containers across these different machines. Before we dive into the details of how Kubernetes works, in this chapter, I want to take a step back and talk about the philosophy of cloud native applications. What is it that really makes Kubernetes (and other cloud native systems) tick? How is it that someone building a cloud native cluster thinks ...

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