Some of the benefits of containerization are as follows:
The same container image can run on a local development machine or a cloud instance
It is trivial to deploy a new version of a piece of software and perform a rollback if something goes wrong
It introduces an extra layer of security as applications are isolated from both the host and other applications
Master nodes implement thecontrol planeof a Kubernetes cluster. Worker nodes pool their resources (CPUs, memory, disks, GPUs, and so on) and execute the workloads that have been assigned to them by the master nodes.
A regular Kubernetes service acts as a load balancer for distributing incoming traffic to a collection of pods. Regular services are reachable via the cluster ...
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