Introduction to Kubernetes

In the previous chapter, we studied serverless frameworks, created serverless applications using these frameworks, and deployed these applications to the major cloud providers.

As we have seen in the previous chapters, Kubernetes and serverless architectures started to gain traction at the same time in the industry. Kubernetes got a high level of adoption and became the de facto container management system with its design principles based on scalability, high availability, and portability. For serverless applications, Kubernetes provides two essential benefits: removal of vendor lock-in and reuse of services.

Kubernetes creates an infrastructure layer of abstraction to remove vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is a situation where transition from one service provider to another is very difficult or even infeasible. In the previous chapter, we studied how serverless frameworks make it easy to develop cloud-agnostic serverless applications. Let's assume...