What is Kubernetes

Kubernetes or K8s is a platform to schedule and run containers on clusters of VM. It runs on bare metal, virtual machines, private or public cloud.

Kubernetes: Most popular open-source container orchestrator

• Provision hosts

• Instantiate containers on host

• Ability to restart failed containers

• Export containers as services outside clusters

• Scale cluster up/down

More Examples: Docker Swarm, Mesos, Rancher, Amazon EC2, Google Anthos