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Containerization is an efficient and effective way to implement DevOps than a monolithic application. Kubernetes creates and manages containers on the cloud-based server systems.Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for managing, scaling, and automating software deployment. Kubernetes helps organizations with DevOps, as it combines the development and maintenance phase of software systems to improve agility. Through the Kubernetes user interface, developers can view, access, deploy, update, and optimize container ecosystems.
Components of Kubernetes:
1) Master: The master runs the API for the entire cluster of the cloud application.
Nodes: Nodes are physical or virtual machines within the cluster that host the application.
2) Pods: Pods are the basic building blocks of Kubernetes that can run a set of containers simultaneously.
Replication controller: The replication controller ensures that the expected number of pods are running all the time.
3) Services: Services host a dynamic load balancer for a given number of pods.
benefits of Kubernetes:
4) No downtime for deployment: Kubernetes allows developers to deploy updates to their cloud-based applications without experiencing any downtime.
5) scalability: Kubernetes can scale an application up and down
Infrastructure and configuration as Code:Kubernetes helps developers build the ‘infrastructure as code’ and also helps them manage coding environment configurations as code.
6) Cross-functional collaboration: With role-based access controls, Kubernetes makes collaboration easy while ensuring that resources and configurations remain steady
Advantages:
Flexibility and portability
Infrastructure abstraction
Automated operations