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What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a resource scheduling engine.Since 2012 – Developed by Google. Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerised workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available. The name Kubernetes originates from Greek, meaning helmsman or pilot. K8s as an abbreviation results from counting the eight letters between the "K" and the "s". Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. Kubernetes combines over 15 years of Google's experience running production workloads at scale with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

Google problem with scale

• Google initially concentrated around search engine runs millions of different data jobs in their datacenter - both for search and engine feeding.
• Later, they extend business to SEO toolkit. It introduce need to manage multiple tenants to operate users.
• They recognise it's hard to manage this different workloads automatically in such scale.

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How Kubernetes was born

• Google extracted standard approach for resource management into Kubernetes
• Together with partners they decide container orchestration is sexy subject growing in interest
• They build CNCF together with Intel and RedHat
• They build dedicated control organisation to standardise what happen around

Summary

Many thanks to Marcin Karkocha for giving us a presentation about Kubernetes. Live demo was also interesting part. We could see some theory in action.

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About Marcin Karkocha

Chief Transformation Strategist, Cloud Native Evangelist, Father of Two Boys.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkarkocha/

https://marcin.karkocha.tech/

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