What Is Kubernetes.....

What Is Kubernetes.....

Running a container on a laptop is relatively simple. But, connecting containers across multiple hosts, scaling them, deploying applications without downtime, and service discovery among several aspects, can be difficult. 

                                          

Kubernetes is the one which addresses those challenges from the start with a set of primitives and a powerful open and extensible API. The ability to add new objects and controllers allows easy customization for various production needs. 

According to the kubernetes.io website, Kubernetes is: 

"an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications".

 Kubernetes is that it builds on 15 years of experience at Google in a project called borg.  Kubernetes is inspired by Borg - the internal system used by Google to manage its applications (e.g. Gmail, Apps, GCE).

Methodology of Kubernetes

Deploying containers and using Kubernetes may require a change in the development and the system administration approach to deploying applications. In a traditional environment, an application (such as a web server) would be a monolithic application placed on a dedicated server. 

As the web traffic increases, the application would be tuned, and perhaps moved to bigger and bigger hardware. After a couple of years, a lot of customization may have been done in order to meet the current web traffic needs. 

Instead of using a large server, Kubernetes approaches the same issue by deploying a large number of small web servers, or microservices. The server and client sides of the application expect that there are many possible agents available to respond to a request. 

It is also important that clients expect the server processes to die and be replaced, leading to a transient server deployment. Instead of a large Apache web server with many httpd daemons responding to page requests, there would be many nginx servers, each responding. 

Communication to, as well as internally, between components is API call-driven, which allows for flexibility. Configuration information is stored in a JSON format, but is most often written in YAML. Kubernetes agents convert the YAML to JSON prior to persistence to the database. 


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