What is Kubernetes?

hello everyone you have probably heard of the open-source automation platform kubernetes it's becoming popular but what is kubernetes let's find out meet Bob Bob loves working with containers think of them as lightweight virtual machines Bob designs his application using containers it's working great so Bob goes ahead and deploys the application the application becomes popular to keep up bob needs to scale his resources now instead of a handful he has to deal with hundreds of containers bob is overwhelmed he needs a simple way to automate the process kubernetes comes to the rescue in kubernetes there is a master node and there are multiple worker nodes each worker node can handle multiple pods pods are just a bunch of containers clustered together as a working unit so Bob starts designing his application using pods once bob has his pods ready he tells the master node the pod definitions and how many he wants to be deployed from that point kubernetes is in control it takes the pods and deploys them to the worker nodes if a worker node goes down kubernetes starts new pods on a functioning worker node bob doesn't have to worry about the complexity of managing containers anymore he can spend time improving his application and adding new features to it bob is happy kubernetes was originally designed by google then it was donated to the cloud native computing foundation it is a large and complex system for automating deploying scaling and operating application containers but you don't need to be overwhelmed you can start learning about kubernetes using mini cube with mini cube you can run a single node cluster on your laptop it is a great way to learn coop Nettie's for more information visit Lenox hint comm and see the links in the description below and please hit the subscribe button for the Linux hint Channel

Channel: linuxhint

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Keywords: kubernetes, devops, containers, docker

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Length: 2min 29sec (149 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 07 2018