Getting Started with Containers

The world is rapidly generating massive amounts of data from a variety of sources – mobile devices, social media, e-commerce transactions, sensors, and more. This data explosion is often referred to as “big data.” While big data presents immense opportunities for businesses and organizations to gain valuable insights, it also brings tremendous complexity in how to store, process, analyze, and extract value from huge volumes of diverse data.

This is where Kubernetes comes in. Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration system that helps automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes brings important advantages for building big data systems. It provides a standard way to deploy containerized big data applications on any infrastructure. This makes it easy to migrate applications across on-premises servers or cloud providers. It also makes it simple to scale big data applications...