Introduction
Introduction
Course overview
Kubernetes Overview
Advantages of Kubernetes
Introduction
Course overview
Through this course you can understand the basic concept of Kubernetes
Also we will be doing some hands-on coding exercise which can help you to understand
Kubernetes better.
Kubernetes Overview
Kubernetes is also know as ("K8s" or "Kube") was built by google based on their
experience running containers in real time.
What does it mean K8s ? [K8s is derived by replacing the eight letters of ubernete]
Also, its an open source product & its arguably one of the best and most popular
container orchestration technology out their.
To understand Kubernetes we must first understand 2 things [Container + Orchestration]
Introduction 1
Lets start with Container :
We are familiar with container already which we were dealing with last couple of days.
Right now the popular technology out there is Docker which help us to simplify hosting
applications in container model.
In Nutshell, the real use case of Docker is to install & run software without worrying
about setup or dependencies.
Container Orchestration
We know how our application is packaged into a docker container but what's next ?
how do you run in at production ?
What if your application relies on other containers such as databases, messaging services
or other backend services?
How you are going to scale up and scale down your application according to the
incoming work load?
💡 To enable all this functionalities you need a platform which has these
capabilities.
💡 The platform need to orchestrate the connectivity between containers.
💡 Also, It should be able to automatically scale up and scale down based on
load.
Introduction 2
This whole process of automatically deploy and managing containers is known as
container orchestration.
There are many tools available in this segment.
Docker swarm is native docker feature which will help for container orchestation.
Kuberenetes is from Google.
Mesos from Apache.
Every tool has its own advantage and disadvantage, Kubernetes is standing out among
them since because it is widely accepted.
Kubernetes is bit difficult to setup and get started but provides lot of options to
customize deployments and supports deployments of complex architecture.
Kubernetes is also now supported on all public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP &
AZURE.
Advantages of Kubernetes
There are various advantages in using Kubernetes.
Your application is highly available as hardware failure do no bring your application
down because we have multiple instances of your application running on different nodes.
Introduction 3
The user traffic is load balanced across multiple containers. [When demand increases
deploy more instances of the application seamlessly in matter of seconds]
When we run out of hardware resources can scale up or down the underlying nodes
without disturbing running application.
To do all such thing we need flexible and easy to manage tool and that going to be
Kubernetes.
In Nutshell, Kubernetes is an container orchestration tool [which helps to orchestrate
100s & 1000s of container deployment and managing all those in an easy way..]
Introduction 4
