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Cloud native and Kubernetes

Cloud native and Kubernetes

From the course: DevOps Foundations

Cloud native and Kubernetes

- You probably won't get far into looking into DevOps technologies nowadays without hearing a bunch of people suddenly scream, "Kubernetes," like they're watching Elvis wiggle his hips for the first time. - Well, and Ernest does a pretty mean hip wiggle too. It's why they'll only film him from the waist up for the course. - We encourage all learners to correct this injustice by leaving a course comment saying, "Unleash the wiggle." - Okay, anyway, Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. In other words, a place for you to install and run your containerized applications. - Now, I can already hear you asking, "Cool story, bro, but why is that exciting?" The first reason is that it's a platform framework that lets you automate a lot of the plumbing required to run your applications. Besides the deployment and scaling, it lets you add in management features, like observability, service discovery, health…

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