All-Things-Docker-and-Kubernetes
Cloud-Native Landscape
With the advent of containers, the need for tools to manage and maintain them also arise. Some of the container orchestrator tools that are being used is the market are:
- Kubernetes,
- Apache Mesos, and
- Docker Swarm
Of the three, Kubernetes is currently the leading tool in deploying containerized workloads.
It was a project inside Google and was released in 2014 and is currently being maintained by CNCF or Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a vendor-agnostic organization that manages open-source projects. The main features of Kubernetes are the automation of:
- Configuration
- Management
- Scalability
Over time, Kubernetes was developed to include more than just automation but also other functionalities:
- Runtime
- Networking
- Storage
- Service Mesh
- Logs and metrics
- Tracing