A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
Kubernetes has now become the de facto standard for deploying containerized applications at scale in private, public and hybrid cloud environments. The largest public cloud platforms AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud now provide managed services for Kubernetes. A few years back RedHat completely replaced their OpenShift implementation with Kubernetes and collaborated with the Kubernetes community for implementing the next generation container platform. Mesosphere incorporated key features of Kubernetes such as container grouping, overlay networking, layer 4 routing, secrets, etc into their container platform DC/OS soon after Kubernetes got popular. DC/OS also integrated Kubernetes as a container orchestrator alongside Marathon. Pivotal recently introduced Pivotal Container Service (PKS) based on Kubernetes for deploying third-party services on Pivotal Cloud Foundry and as of today there are many other organizations and technology providers adapting it at a rapid phase.
Kubernetes project started in year the 2014 with more than a decade of experience of running production workloads at Google with Google’s internal container cluster managers Borg and Omega. In my opinion, it made the adaption of emerging software architectural patterns such as microservices, serverless functions, service mesh, event-driven applications much easier and paved the path towards the entire…
