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Getting Started with Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration engine that automates how container applications are deployed, scaled, and managed. Since it was first released 7 years ago, it has made great strides in a short period. It has previously had to compete with and outperform container orchestration engines such as Cloud Foundry Diego, CoreOS's Fleet, Docker Swarm, Kontena, HashiCorp's Nomad, Apache Mesos, Rancher's Cattle, Amazon ECS, and more. Kubernetes is now operating in an entirely different landscape. This indicates that developers only need to master one container orchestration engine so that they can be employed for 90% of container-related jobs.

The Kubernetes container orchestration framework is a ...

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