What Is Kubernetes?
While entire books are devoted to answering this question, even they can’t cover everything Kubernetes can do. For our purposes in this book, I will touch upon the information you need to know to have a working knowledge of Kubernetes, enough to continue our journey and deploy and operate our service. Why Kubernetes? Kubernetes is ubiquitous, it’s available on all cloud platforms, and it’s as close to a standard as we have for deploying distributed services.
Kubernetes[53] is an open source orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling, and operating services running in containers. You tell Kubernetes what to do by using its REST API to create, update, and delete resources that Kubernetes knows how to handle. Kubernetes ...
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