Introduction to Kubernetes

Introduction to Kubernetes

Kubernetes, or k8s for short, is an open-source container orchestrator. Originally developed by the engineers at Google, Kubernetes solves many problems involved with running a microservice architecture in production. Kubernetes automatically takes care of scaling, self-healing, load-balancing, rolling updates, and other tasks that used to be done manually by DevOps engineers.

Since Kubernetes was open-sourced and managed by Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2014, the development community has embraced its benefits to orchestrate container-based systems. This book will detail the basics of Kubernetes and some of the lessons that the engineers at Leverege have learned in production.