SQL Server big data clusters allow you to manage clusters of SQL Servers alongside containers with Spark and Hadoop HDFS orchestrated by Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source system, used for automating the whole life cycle which includes the following:
- Deployment
- Scaling
- Management
The SQL Server container capability is available since the Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2016. The container approach offers a higher level of isolation then normal processes running in Windows server, by using new operating system technologies such as namespaces and enhancements to technologies such as a job object. A container shares the host kernel but isolates the application from other containers and processes running on the server. ...
