Kubernetes: A Synopsis and Introduction
Kubernetes , also known as K8s , is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It was developed by Google later the project was open-sourced. Before getting into the details of K8S, a concept of Containerization and Docker is essential, go through my blog on once. K8s features - Service discovery and load balancing Storage orchestration Automated rollouts and rollbacks Automatic bin packing Self-healing Secret and configuration management Kubernetes Components A Kubernetes cluster comprises of — Control Planes and Worker Nodes . Our application runs in its containerized form inside a pod, which is deployed in a node. Each of those nodes, also called Worker Node, is managed by a Control Plane or Master Node which as a whole constitutes a Cluster. The components of a Master Node / Control Plane - The components of a Worker Node - kubelet — agent that runs on each node in the cluster. It makes sure that containers are runni