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Kubernetes in 2 minutes

25 Jul 2019 - Shyam Mohan

Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Kubernetes Design and Architecture

Goals

Portable
General-purpose.
Flexible
Extensible
Automatable

Architecture

Cluster control plane (AKA master)
API Server
Cluster state store (etcd)
Controller-Manager Server
Scheduler

The Kubernetes Node

Kubelet
Container runtime
Service Proxy

Add-ons and other dependencies

A number of components, called add-ons typically run on Kubernetes itself: DNS

Ingress controller
Heapster (resource monitoring)
Dashboard (GUI)

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Shyam Mohan

DevOps Engineer

Shyam Mohan is a DevOps Engineer and he has 14+ years of experience in the areas of Software Development, Devops, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and he also guides companies to adopt CI/CD pipelines which will help them to automate their workflow.