In Present days, container-based microservice architectures have drastically changed the way development and operations teams (DevOps) work, test and deploy applications. Containers help organizations to scale and deploy applications on the fly, but containers have also brought the organizations new additional challenges and complexity.
Many businesses are now deploying lots of containers daily as it is effortless & requires fun-size time in setting up the infrastructure, but wait, how do they really manage it?
The answer is Kubernetes.
Yes, you heard that right. Kubernetes is Everywhere now.
So what is Kubernetes? Why do people use them? What does it do? Lots of question eh. Here are the answers.
THE WHAT?
Kubernetes is originally developed by Google and is primarily designed for large scale applications which comprises of tons of services, mostly microservices. You really don’t need a Kubernetes environment for monolith applications or apps with predictable or low demands.
THE WHY?
But Why Kubernetes is so popular and lots of organizations does use it? There are several factors which support the statement but below are few of them which has been hand-picked for simplicity.