Chapter 14 Container Orchestration

A single container provides application isolation and mobility. However, a container by itself doesn’t improve the quality of your service—for example, in terms of load balancing or failover. This is where container orchestration comes into play. Container orchestration does two things:

Image Workload scheduling This ensures your workload is deployed on target hosts at the correct time.

Image State reconciliation This keeps your services at the desired state.

There are quite a few container-orchestration engines, including ...

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