I talked about dockers and containers in one of my blogs:
https://leogether.blogspot.com/2020/08/docker-basics.html.
Now let's talk about what is Kubernetes and why do we need it?.
Containers are fast, reliable, light-weighted, and scalable.
You can easily scale 1 container to many containers but in the real world, there is a need that large organizations will scale multiple containers for an application, needed to ensure availability, load balancing, scaling up, and down based on the load. In such a situation you will need to manage containers like deploying, scheduling, scaling up and down, load balancing, monitoring in some automated way. For this reason, we need a container management tool.
Kubernetes is an opensource container orchestration tool/engine to automate deployment, scale, and manage the containerized application on a group of servers.
Docker is a containerization platform, and Kubernetes is a container management platform.
Great breakdown on why Kubernetes is essential for managing containers at scale! As organizations grow, handling multiple containers efficiently becomes a priority. If you're interested in how Kubernetes uses Init Containers to streamline tasks like initializing data or handling setup processes before the main containers start, I’ve covered these concepts in more detail in my blog. Check out my article on Kubernetes Init Containers (https://tharindupanagoda.blogspot.com/2024/10/kubernetes-learning-init-containers.html) for insights into optimizing your Kubernetes strategy!
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