Kubernetes, or k8s for short, is an open source platform, pioneered by Google, which started as a simple container orchestration tool but has grown into a cloud-native platform. It’s one of the most significant advancements in IT since the public cloud came to being in 2009 and is by far the most popular platform to manage and orchestrate solutions based oncontainers.
What is Kubernetes?
Scalability
YOU NEED TO SCALE AND QUICK SCALING UP/DOWN DEPENDS ON THE WORKLOADS
If you architect a solution that targets infrastructure and VMs, doing it on K8s might be a better choice. This is especially true if it consists of multiple services and requires scaling up and down depending on different factors. In such scenarios, containers provide an easy way to scale your application compared to VMs.
Management
YOUR APPLICATION CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE SERVICES WHICH YOU NEED TO MANAGE
Your application consists of multiple, independent services, and you need to host them at scale. Managing those with a solution like Kubernetes is more accessible than with a traditional infrastructure. Why? Besides the container management layer, there is also the Kubernetes API which lets you automate many tasks related to resource provisioning and management.
Resilience
RESILIENCE FOR CONTAINER-BASED WORKLOADS
Kubernetes is good at doing what it is made for – keeping container workloads up-and-running. If you have code that you will want to run in containers eventually, it will do a great job of keeping it operational and managing the container instances and pods for you.
