Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Kubernetes overview
Kubernetes is one of the most powerful and popular container orchestrators and works with Docker containers, RKT containers, and Windows Containers. Kubernetes was invented by Google in 2003 – 2004 and was made available as an open-source product in 2014. Google had been using Kubernetes internally to run thousands of containers for years; this is a key differentiator when it comes to stability and maturity among container orchestrators.
Kubernetes eliminates the limitations that were introduced by Docker when it was running a production-grade containerized environment, and provides enhancements such as the ability to ensure the application is always up and running by defining a minimum number of containers that should ...
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