PodCTL Basics - What is Kubernetes?

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 4 a.m.

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Show Overview: The basics of Kubernetes.

Show Notes:

\xa0Segment 1 - What is Kubernetes?

  • Technology that spawned from Google\u2019s internal \u201cBorg\u201d system for running application in containers.\xa0
  • Open source project donated to the CNCF in 2015.\xa0
  • Open source community of 1500+ engineers working on various sub-projects that make up the Kubernetes system.\xa0

\xa0Segment 2 - How does Kubernetes work?

  • etcd\xa0
  • Kubernetes API\xa0
  • Kubernetes scheduler\xa0
  • Kubelet on each worker machine
  • Controllers

\xa0Segment 3 - What\u2019s the relationship between Kubernetes and Containers?

  • Containers describe what application bits run on a machine\xa0
  • Kubernetes is the framework that places containers on machines and ensures that the containers run in a well-defined manner (start/stop, highly available, load-balanced, etc.)\xa0

\xa0Segment 4 - Are there alternative technologies that work similar to Kubernetes?

  • Kubernetes is ultimately a framework that schedules containers\xa0
  • Mesos Marathon\xa0
  • Docker Swarm\xa0
  • Nomad from Hashicorp\xa0
  • Lots of homegrown, DIY systems, mostly based on scripting

\xa0Segment 5 - How can a company get Kubernetes or use Kubernetes?

  • Use the Open source software from the Kubernetes community\xa0
  • Use commercially available distributions of Kubernetes from multiple vendors\xa0
  • Consume Kubernetes-as-a-Service from multiple cloud providers

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