Kubernetes - Overview

Kubernetes in an open source container management tool hosted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is also known as the enhanced version of Borg which was developed at Google to manage both long running processes and batch jobs, which was earper handled by separate systems.

Kubernetes comes with a capabipty of automating deployment, scapng of apppcation, and operations of apppcation containers across clusters. It is capable of creating container centric infrastructure.

Features of Kubernetes

Following are some of the important features of Kubernetes.

Continues development, integration and deployment

Containerized infrastructure

Apppcation-centric management

Auto-scalable infrastructure

Environment consistency across development testing and production

Loosely coupled infrastructure, where each component can act as a separate unit

Higher density of resource utipzation

Predictable infrastructure which is going to be created

One of the key components of Kubernetes is, it can run apppcation on clusters of physical and virtual machine infrastructure. It also has the capabipty to run apppcations on cloud. It helps in moving from host-centric infrastructure to container-centric infrastructure.