Kubernetes Introduction
Kubernetes (also known as k8s) is an open-source platform for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Why you should use Kubernetes?
We know that containers are a great way to package and deploy applications, but in a real-world production scenario, you will need to ensure that your application is highly available, scalable, and can recover from failures.
This is where Kubernetes comes in. Here are some of the key features of using Kubernetes:
- Automated deployment & scaling: Easily deploy and scale applications based on demand.
- Automated rollouts & rollbacks: Gradually roll out changes to your application or its configuration, while monitoring application health to ensure it doesn’t kill all your instances at the same time. If something goes wrong, Kubernetes will rollback the change for you.
- Service Discovery & Load Balancing: It exposes a container using a DNS name or its own IP address and distributes network traffic to ensure stability. If traffic to a container is too high, Kubernetes is able to load balance and distribute the network traffic to ensure the deployment is stable.
- Storage orchestration: It automatically mounts a storage system of your choice such as local storage, public cloud providers, and more.
- Self-healing: It automatically restarts failed containers, replaces and reschedules them when nodes die, and kills containers that don’t respond to user-defined health checks.
Last modified on March 28, 2026
