August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
5h 48m
English
Containers make services portable by allowing you to package code, dependencies, and the runtime environment together in one artifact. Deploying containers is generally easier than deploying applications that do not run in containers. The host does not need to have any special configuration or state; it just needs to be able to execute the container runtime. The ability to deploy one or more containers on a single host gave rise to another challenge when managing production environments—scheduling and orchestrating containers to run on specific hosts and manage scaling.
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration tool. It is responsible for scheduling, managing, and scaling your containerized ...
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