Modern Cloud Native applications are built as microservices. These applications are composed of tens, hundreds, or even thousands of small containers running in coordination, each fulfilling a small task in the context of the larger application.
Just like in a philharmonic orchestra, where every musician is responsible for their instrument, microservice-based Cloud Native applications need an orchestra director, synchronizing operations, providing rhythm, and providing the best listener experience to the audience.
That is precisely the role of Kubernetes. This Open Source project, created by Google and donated to the Cloud Native Foundation, has become in the past decade the container orchestrator of choice for Cloud Native applications. It provides the required automation that DevOps teams require to be more productive, taking care of a myriad of tasks previously held by operators.
As Kelsey Hightower said,
Kubernetes does the things that the very best system administrator would do: automation, failover, centralized logging, monitoring. It takes what we’ve learned in the DevOps community and makes it the default, out of the box.
Kubernetes plays a major role during the operation of Cloud Native applications:
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