Implementing Modern DevOps

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is the jewel of the crown of the containers orchestration. The product itself was vamped by Google leveraging years of knowledge on how to run containers in production. Initially, it was an internal system used to run Google services, but at some point, it became a public project. Nowadays, it is an open source project maintained by few companies (Red Hat, Google, and so on) and is used by thousands of companies.

At the time of writing this, the demand for Kubernetes engineers has skyrocketed up to a point that companies are willing to hire people without expertise in the field but with a good attitude to learn new technologies.

Kubernetes has become so popular due to, in my opinion, the following factors:

• It solves ...