Decoding the growing role of Kubernetes for the container era

Kubernetes is a portable and extensible open source platform for managing containerized workloads. Kubernetes automates the end-to-end container life cycle management activities. Configuration requirements are aptly declared, and a host of automation modules of the Kubernetes platform are working together in realizing the desired state. Having understood the strategic importance of Kubernetes, like cluster and orchestration platforms in effectively and efficiently running containers in cloud environments, we can see that tool ecosystem is growing fast. Containers, being the favorite runtime to host and execute microservices, are turning out to be the most tuned resource for the cloud era. For automating the container creation, running, dismantling, stopping, replacing, and replicating the contributions of container cluster and orchestration platform are growing well.

Kubernetes (k8s) eliminates many of the manual activities for...