Roaring Elephant

A little over a week ago, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon happened and our independent Roaring Roving Reporter Rubik Dave came back from Barcelona with a comprehensive report. Kubernetes As the kubernetes.io webpage tells us: "Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications." As we discuss in the episode, Kubernetes forms a kind of middleware layer that performs orchestration of light weight docker containers. To be sure, you can use other container technologies but Docker (and its companion project Moby) are what is most often used with Kubernetes. The biggest advantage of Kubernetes, I believe, is how it has standardized the way a micro services framework based on docker container instances can be deployed and managed. There have been a myriad of other approaches that tried to solve that problem (and Dave gives a rather exhaustive list in the episode), Kubernetes has emerged to be the best supported by the community. KubeCon And that