7 Orchestrating with Kubernetes
A container makes applications portable and consistent, but it’s only one piece of a modern application stack. Imagine needing to manage thousands of containers on different hosts, network ports, and shared volumes. What if one container stopped? How could you scale for load? How could you force containers to run on different hosts for availability? Container orchestration solves all these issues and more. Kubernetes, or K8s, is the open-source orchestration system many companies use to manage their containers. Kubernetes comes preloaded with some useful patterns (such as networking, role-based access control, ...
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