If containers are the new virtual machines, then Kubernetes are the new servers. You will see in this chapter that Kubernetes is an important technology to the future of containerized applications, especially running enterprise workloads like SQL Server.
What Is k8s?
If you have not read Chapter 7, you might go back and at least browse it before you read this chapter. Why? Because Kubernetes or k8s is all about hosting containers. k8s is actually much more than just hosting. I’ll use k8s for Kubernetes for the rest of the chapter because that is the popular acronym for it (and it is sure ...
