Introduction
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of container applications. It provides a unified solution for managing and scaling applications, making it easier to build, deploy, and run applications in the cloud. With Kubernetes, you can manage and scale your applications across multiple containers, reducing the complexity of managing your infrastructure. Kubernetes provides a wide range of solutions for managing your applications, like automatic scaling, self-healing, and rolling updates, making it a powerful and flexible solution for modern web applications.
Features/Benefits of Kubernetes
Container orchestration
manages the deployment, scaling, and operations of containers across a cluster of machines.
Automated rollouts and rollbacks
enables rolling updates to be performed on the application, with automatic rollback in case of failures.
Self-healing
restarts containers that fail, replaces containers, kills containers that don’t respond to user-defined health checks, and reschedules containers when nodes fail.
Auto-scaling
dynamically scales the number of replicas of a deployment based on CPU usage.
Horizontal scaling
allows you to scale your application horizontally by adding or removing containers as required.
Load balancing
automatically balances traffic to multiple replicas of a service.