How do you recognize which container platforms are most suitable for your business needs? And how do you make the right conclusion about container orchestration like Kubernetes to operate at scale and accelerate innovation? Read Here
Suppose your organization wants to succeed in today's dynamic, hyper-accelerated digital economy. In that case, you need to operate like a start-up, which means continuously rethinking how you design, develop and manage applications. Organizations now realize the value of this same principle of change. Now, a growing number of tech- teams adopt development tools like Kubernetes to create cloud-native apps that work consistently and coherently across private, public, and hybrid clouds. What are Cloud-native applications, you ask? They are a collection of small, autonomous, and loosely coupled services. They intend to deliver well-recognized business value, like the ability to incorporate user feedback for continuous improvement rapidly. In short, developing apps in a cloud-native fashion is a way to expedite up building new applications, optimize existing ones, and connect them all. It intends to deliver apps users want at the pace a business needs.
But how do you recognize which container platforms are most suitable for your business needs? And how do you make the right conclusion about container orchestration to manage your containers' lifecycles, enabling you to operate at scale and accelerate innovation?
Containers are Linux
It goes without saying that the operating system (OS) matters when you are running containers, possibly even more than it does for your legacy application environments. Preferably, your applications need to be built to run on Linux as well. This allows containers to leverage some essential capabilities available within Linux. Containers rely on key Linux kernel features such as control groups and namespaces to isolate the running applications inside these containers.
Even the tools used to manage the container lifecycles work best with Linux. Presently, Kubernetes, built on Linux concepts, is the leading container orchestration platform, and it uses Linux based tooling and application programming interfaces (APIs) to manage the containers.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes has seen a sharp rise in its popularity, but there's still some confusion around its precise significance. On a basic level, Kubernetes serves as the application that runs your containers, but actually, Kubernetes is a bundle of utilities or APIs. Kubernetes is this extensive set of APIs that explains how a group of microservices running in container silos on a group of servers can coordinate to work together and share services and resources.
