Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that is used to manage and scale containerized applications. Kubernetes allows you to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications across a cluster of machines.
The primary benefits of Kubernetes over just using Docker Compose are:
- High Availability: Kubernetes makes it easy to ensure that your applications are always available by automatically restarting failed containers or moving them to healthy nodes in the cluster.
- Self-healing: Kubernetes includes built-in capabilities for monitoring and automatically recovering from failures.
- Load balancing: Kubernetes provides built-in load balancing functionality, allowing you to distribute traffic across multiple instances of your application.
- Rolling updates: Kubernetes makes it easy to perform rolling updates to your application without downtime, allowing you to deploy new versions of your application seamlessly.
- Advanced networking: Kubernetes supports a wide range of networking options, allowing you to configure your applications to work with different network topologies and load balancers.
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At Norik Systems, we’re currently using Docker Compose as an orchestration tool for our Docker containers. While this has proven to be a great solution for us in the present, we’re always looking for more modern and improved solutions – and Kubernetes is definitely one of them.