What Is Kubernetes?

We’ve emphasized how tough it was deploying applications without containers and discussed a little about Docker. Next, we’ll look at what makes containers easier to use over deploying without them, and why the tool for such a purpose is Kubernetes. Kubernetes was originally designed by Google in 2014. It’s open-sourced and has gathered a large community of contributors who have worked on various versions of it to date. The community ensures that there’s a release of a Kubernetes version every four months, making it approximately three releases per year.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration tool that manages containers. It scales and monitors applications that run on it. It’s called an orchestration tool because it allows the building of application services on many containers, enabling easy scaling and management of their health. Kubernetes is also known by the “K8s” acronym.