What is Kubernetes

Part of the Kubernetes course

Welcome. If you have used Docker once or twice and now you keep hearing the word Kubernetes without quite knowing what it is, you are in the right place. By the end of this lesson you will have a clear picture of what Kubernetes does, you will have talked to a real cluster with one command, and you will know what a manifest looks like. We are not in a rush.

Kubernetes (often shortened to K8s, because there are eight letters between the K and the s) is the thing that runs your containers for you when one machine is not enough, or when you want a container that died at 3am to come back on its own. A container is a lightweight, self contained package of an application and everything it needs to run. ...