What is Kubernetes? Container Orchestration Explained

By Sailee Shingare | M.S. in Computer Science, Northern Illinois University (NIU) In the last post, we learned how Docker lets you package and run applications in containers. But here’s a question — what happens when you have not one container, but hundreds? What if a container crashes at 3 AM? What if traffic spikes and you need 50 containers instead of 5? Who manages all of that? That’s exactly what Kubernetes does. What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes (also written as K8s) is an ope...