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What is container orchestration?

Container orchestration is the automated management, coordination, arrangement, and monitoring of computer resources so that they can be provided to engineers with enterprise quality without taking much time to setup. The most popular container orchestration software available on the market is as follows:

Red Hat's OpenShift
Google's Kubernetes or AWS EKS
Mesos and Marathon
CoreOS Tectonics
Docker compose
OpenStack Magnum

Red Hat's OpenShift: Red Hat is early starter in the container orchestration market and includes the majority of Kubernetes clusters. OpenShift is a container orchestration solution that helps to deploy containerized microservices into pods. Red Hat has developed a UI layer and integrated ...

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