Preface
With the mainstream adoption of microservices and containers in recent years, the way we design, develop, and run software has changed radically. Today’s applications are optimized for availability, scalability, and speed-to-market. Driven by these new requirements, today’s modern applications require a different set of patterns and practices. This book aims to help developers discover and learn about the most common patterns for creating cloud native applications with Kubernetes. First, let’s take a brief look at the two primary ingredients of this book: Kubernetes and design patterns.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. The origin of Kubernetes lies somewhere in the Google data centers where Google’s internal container orchestration platform, Borg, was born. Google used Borg for many years to run its applications. In 2014, Google decided to transfer its experience with Borg into a new open source project called “Kubernetes” (Greek for “helmsman” or “pilot”). In 2015, it became the first project donated to the newly founded Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
From the start, Kubernetes gained a whole community of users, and the number of contributors grew incredibly fast. Today, Kubernetes is considered one of the most popular projects on GitHub. It is fair to claim that Kubernetes is the most commonly used and feature-rich container orchestration platform. Kubernetes also forms the foundation of other platforms built on top of it. The ...
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