What is Kubernetes – Everything You Need to Know
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source project that aims to orchestrate containers and automate application deployment.
Currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Kubernetes manages the clusters that contain the hosts that run Linux applications.
These clusters can include cloud hosts, so Kubernetes (K8s) is the ideal platform for hosting cloud-native applications that require rapid scalability, such as streaming data in real-time via Apache Kafka.
Deploying a new version of an application is always a risky process. There are several manual or semi-automated steps, and in case something goes wrong, rolling back to the previous version is super complicated.
Now imagine that with an application comprised of dozens of microservices, each with a different lifecycle, different release dates, and different technologies.
This would be the nightmare of any development team. Therefore, it eliminates many manual processes that a containerized application requires, making microservices projects easier and faster, for example.
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