Kubernetes

Use to manage and scale multiple Containers. It's similar to Docker Swarm.

Kubernetes allow to distribute multiple containers without tying to 1 machine. Have 2 components:

1. K8S Control Plane
2. K8s Node

The architecture is as follows:

Pros:

• Good for scaling
• Auto self-healing
  Cons:
• Complex to setup
• Costly to runs (needs to also operate the control plane)
  • However now another option is to use cloud control plane. i.e: EKS, GKS, AKS, …