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What is Kubernetes?

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What is Kubernetes?

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- [Teacher] We now know that containers enable us to easily deploy small application components. In other words, loosely coupled microservices, but it is not uncommon for an enterprise to have an extremely large number of containers running. Once you have such a large number of containers running simultaneously, how do you manage them? The reality is it is expensive, error-prone, and cumbersome for an operations team to do so manually. You need an automated system that can schedule, configure, restart, and monitor such containers. Kubernetes is such an open source-container orchestration system that relieves the operations team. And with the help of an orchestrator, operations team only need to focus on managing kubernetes itself, while the Kubernetes manages thousands of containers on their behalf. In fact, the combination of container technology, powered with the orchestration of Kubernetes, enables your DevOps…

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