Kubernetes and Orchestration: Managing Container Clusters
Kubernetes and Orchestration: Managing Container Clusters Managing many containers requires a steady plan. Kubernetes helps you run, scale, and maintain apps across many machines. It acts as an organizer, so your services stay available even if hardware fails. This post explains the basics and common patterns for teams new to orchestration. Key parts of a cluster At its core, Kubernetes has a control plane and many worker nodes. The control plane makes decisions and stores state. The nodes run your containers. The main components include the API server, etcd, scheduler, and controllers on the control plane, and kubelet, container runtime, and kube-proxy on each node. ...