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P. KhushalaniKubernetes Application Developerhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8032-4_1

1. What Is Cloud Computing?

Prateek Khushalani1  
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Gurgaon, Haryana, India
 

The term cloud computing might be trending today, but it was first seen in books around 1996. If you think this term means computers flying into clouds in the sky, you must consider what happens when it rains. Computers are certainly not waterproof and would become useless.

Let’s discuss cloud computing. So, Kubernetes, a.k.a. K8s, is one of the leading software solutions which enables you to run containers in a clustered fashion. I know I have already introduced many technical words. Still, to ...

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