What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is what one needs when managing the containerized application lifecycle; it’s one of the world’s leading open-source container orchestration platforms across multiple environments; on-prem, private and public cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud. First created by the engineers of Google, this complex application structure can be scaled across multiple environments easily. All the advanced tools to run Kubernetes orchestration can also be found in one package a.k.a Google’s Kubernetes Engine.

What separates Kubernetes from all its competitors is its ability to manage numerous standalone containers which are broadly defined as packages that carry all the essential elements for running a certain application.

Kubernetes helps to scale applications automatically, optimizes the distribution of network traffic, and performs the “self-healing” of the environment by automatically replacing or re-launching failed containers which enhances reliability and less manual efforts for the technical team.

Kubernetes also enables the members of the development team to ignore infrastructure issues whenever they arise and instead access software program codes, which allows them to be creative. Its architecture is scalable and makes it possible to have small scale or enterprise level deployment across varied cloud environments.

As far as application development is concerned, Kubernetes is like modernizing how structures and systems are created – changing the entire dynamic of the development cycle.