Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer software deployment, scaling, and management. It is maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and is one of the most popular container orchestration tools available today.
Key Features
- Self-Healing: Automatically restarts failed containers, replaces containers that are not healthy, and kills containers that do not respond to the heartbeat.
- Service Discovery and Load Balancing: Provides a discovery mechanism for services and their associated endpoints, as well as load balancing.
- Storage Orchestration: Automatically mount storage systems at the container runtime.
- Secrets and ConfigMaps Management: Provides a way to manage and inject sensitive information into your application containers.
Getting Started
If you are new to Kubernetes, we recommend starting with the official Kubernetes documentation. It provides a step-by-step guide to deploying your first application on Kubernetes.
Quick Guide
- Pods: The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes. It can contain one or more containers.
- Services: Defines a logical set of Pods and a policy by which to access them.
- Deployments: A high-level API object for managing sets of identical Pods.
- ReplicaSets: A set of Pods that can be created from a single pod template.
Useful Resources
Kubernetes Architecture