Features of Kubernetes
- Automated Scheduling– Kubernetes provides an advanced scheduler to launch containers on cluster nodes. It performs resource optimization.
- Self-Healing Capabilities– It provides rescheduling, replacing, and restarting the containers that are dead.
- Automated Rollouts and Rollbacks– It supports rollouts and rollbacks for the desired state of the containerized application.
- Horizontal Scaling and Load Balancing– Kubernetes can scale up and scale down the application as per the requirements.
- Resource Utilization– Kubernetes provides resource utilization monitoring and optimization, ensuring containers are using their resources efficiently.
- Support for multiple clouds and hybrid clouds– Kubernetes can be deployed on different cloud platforms and run containerized applications across multiple clouds.
- Extensibility– Kubernetes is very extensible and can be extended with custom plugins and controllers.
- Community Support- Kubernetes has a large and active community with frequent updates, bug fixes, and new features being added.
Introduction to Kubernetes (K8S)
Kubernetes is an open-source platform that manages Docker containers in the form of a cluster. Along with the automated deployment and scaling of containers, it provides healing by automatically restarting failed containers and rescheduling them when their hosts die. This capability improves the application’s availability.