What Exactly Is Kubernetes?

Posted by alvina on August 27th, 2017

A lot of major companies are interested in finding quicker, more efficient ways to moving huge data centers on the computer onto a new platform. Kubernetes is the ultimate solution to your problems. Companies such as The New York Times, Ancestry, Goldman Sachs, Samsung SDS, Box, eBay, Phillips, and Comcast are some of the major organizations that are on board to use the Kubernetes software. Kubernetes as a service has eased management and it has increased productivity in the engineering department for Pearson. First, we should know what is kubernetes. It is defined as “open source” platform that operates Linex container operations automatically on the computer. It involves exclusively in scaling and starting computer applications. Many computer group hosts can be simply combined together to run Linux containers smoothly with no problem. Kubernetes deployment of containers allows the user to successfully gain good management and orchestration capabilities for these workloads. It simply allows a computer user to start an application system that will grow through multiple containers, scale the containers, and manage the lifeline of the container on your computer.

It has been brought to my attention that in order for Kubernetes to run effectively, it must merge with security, storage, networking, telemetry, and other computer services. The end result will be a container infrastructure that is easy to understand. The benefits of using Kurbernetes is adding and mounting storage to run several applications, automate and effectively handle updates and application deployments. It also allows you to properly orchestrate containers across several hosts. Kubernetes is amazing due to making the computer hardware on your computer in maximizing all necessary resources to run your enterprise applications with no bugs or problems. Other major benefits are scaling resources and containerized applications quickly, making a promise that the deployed applications are running efficiently 100% of the time and allowing the user to continually check the health of your computer applications and the chance to heal them with auto-restart, auto-scaling, auto-replication, and auto-placement.

Kubernetes architecture has a master node architecture and minion node architecture. The Etcd is described as an open key value that was created by the CoresO team. Configuration data is stored here. All nodes are able to be accessed in the Etcd. The Kube API server only validates the Etcd configuration store. It was created to make communication more efficient by providing a RESTful interface. The Kube Schedule Server main task is to give tasks to minions in the cluster. Lastly, the Kube Control Manager is responsible for handling primarily replication controllers. If the cluster changes, it is written and sent to the Etcd. The Kube Control Manager is supposed to bring up the cluster in that newly changed state.

Minion node architecture must also be described as well. A docker is a basic requirement for nodes. Its main job is to pull down and run containers primarily from the Docker images only. Kube Proxy sends requests to the correct container in a node.