SEARCH (ENTER TO SEE ALL RESULTS)

POPULAR TOPICS

Contributed
News
Analysis
The New Stack Makers
Tutorial
Podcast
Research
Feature
Science
Off-The-Shelf Hacker
Skip to content
  • Podcasts
    • TNS @Scale Series
    • TNS Analysts Round Table
    • TNS Context Weekly News
    • TNS Makers Interviews
    • All Podcasts
  • Events
  • Ebooks
    • DevOps
    • DevSecOps
    • Docker Ecosystem
    • Kubernetes Ecosystem
    • Microservices
    • Serverless
    • Storage
    • All Ebooks
  • Newsletter
  • Sponsorship
  • • • •
    • Podcasts
      • TNS @Scale Series
      • TNS Analysts Round Table
      • TNS Context Weekly News
      • TNS Makers Interviews
      • All Podcasts
    • Events
    • Ebooks
      • Machine Learning
      • DevOps
      • Serverless
      • Microservices
      • Kubernetes Ecosystem
      • Docker Ecosystem
      • All Ebooks
    • Newsletter
    • Sponsorship
Skip to content
  • Architecture
    • Cloud Native
    • Containers
    • Edge/IoT
    • Microservices
    • Networking
    • Serverless
    • Storage
  • Development
    • Development
    • Cloud Services
    • Data
    • Machine Learning
    • Security
  • Operations
    • CI/CD
    • Culture
    • DevOps
    • Kubernetes
    • Monitoring
    • Service Mesh
    • Tools
 

Kubernetes

▾ 1 MINUTE READ — CLOSE

Kubernetes is the Accepted Platform for Cloud Native Computing

Although technically best described as a container orchestration engine, Kubernetes is rapidly becoming the infrastructure platform for cloud native computing, an approach to using public or private clouds in the most flexible way possible.

With this approach, the general idea is to put your applications within containers and then manage them against available resources using Kubernetes. Beyond orchestration itself, Kubernetes as a platform solves a lot of enterprise IT issues, including service discovery, application invocation, logging, monitoring, replicas and backups, and, of course, flexibility.

Containers + Kubernetes Ease Application Deployment

Containers also allow organizations to streamline the development process, for a seamless, and often automated, transition between the developer and the production deployment. Containers free up developers to use whatever languages and frameworks they prefer, given the ability to package all the dependencies for these specific choices within the container itself.

On the operations side, Kubernetes allows operators to make the best use of available resources, by moving around containers, or having them automatically moved around, to best match the optimal performance and price.

Kubernetes also promises to provide a path forward for multicloud operations. By this time, organizations have acclimated to the fact that, in many cases, cloud computing is the best way to handle IT operations. But each of the cloud providers offers its own unique interfaces, posing a danger that a customer’s operations may be “locked” into that specific provider.

Developed by Google, Now Supported by All Major Cloud Providers

Google first created Kubernetes based on its own software for managing containers, called The Borg. The company had already been using containers in its own operations for well over a decade and so company engineers had plenty of expertise and best practices in hand when designing this new software, which was released as open source in 2014 and is now hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Now offered as a service by all the major cloud providers, Kubernetes provides, through a set of APIs, an abstraction that allows users to potentially mix and match cloud services.


A newsletter digest of the week’s most important stories & analyses.

Do you also want to be notified of the following?
We don’t sell or share your email. By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Machine Learning / Microservices / Monitoring

Instana Brings Microservices Monitoring to the Service Level

11 Oct 2016 7:51am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Services / Containers / Kubernetes

Where Containers Fit into the Oracle Cloud

10 Oct 2016 9:05am, by TC Currie

API Management / Cloud Native / Data / Development / Kubernetes / Monitoring / Open Source / Sponsored

CoreOS’ CTO on Kubernetes, Etcd, Prometheus, and Tectonic

7 Oct 2016 12:05pm, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Data / Kubernetes

TNS Research: How Much Did it Cost to Build the Kubernetes Ecosystem?

7 Oct 2016 9:23am, by Lawrence E Hecht

CI/CD / Containers / DevOps / Kubernetes / Microservices / Open Source / Security / Contributed

Container Camp U.K.: Some Best Practices for Continuous Security

5 Oct 2016 11:52am, by Jennifer Riggins

Containers / Kubernetes

How CRI-O Would Put Kubernetes at the Center of the Container Ecosystem

5 Oct 2016 10:15am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source / Sponsored

How Red Hat Sees Containers as an Abstraction and What That Means

3 Oct 2016 12:03pm, by Kiran Oliver

Kubernetes / Storage

Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Storage Provisioning and Allocation

3 Oct 2016 8:28am, by Janakiram MSV

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Sponsored

A Talk with Dan Kohn, CNCF’s New Executive Director

30 Sep 2016 12:06pm, by Kiran Oliver and Alex Williams

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

Three Approaches to Container Networking

30 Sep 2016 7:09am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Kubernetes / Monitoring

Canonical Releases a Commercially-Supported Kubernetes for Multi-Cloud Use

29 Sep 2016 7:05am, by Susan Hall

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes / Open Source / Contributed

A Controversial Project to Run Containers Without Docker Gets a Name Change

28 Sep 2016 7:45am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Cloud Services / Data / Kubernetes / Machine Learning / Storage

BOSH Hooks Cloud Foundry into the Google Cloud Platform, Offers Large-Scale VM Lifecycle Management

27 Sep 2016 10:45am, by Joab Jackson

Containers / Kubernetes / Storage

Strategies for Running Stateful Applications in Kubernetes: Volumes

26 Sep 2016 12:53pm, by Janakiram MSV

Cloud Native / Development / Kubernetes / Networking / Open Source

The Swinging Pendulum of Container Orchestration

26 Sep 2016 6:58am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Data / Kubernetes / Storage

Managing Persistence for Docker Containers

23 Sep 2016 7:38am, by Janakiram MSV

Containers / Kubernetes

Red Hat, Google Engineers Work on a Way for Kubernetes to Run Containers Without Docker

22 Sep 2016 4:32am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Containers / Kubernetes / Contributed

Supergiant Builds on Kubernetes to Manage Multitenancy for Distributed Applications

21 Sep 2016 11:07am, by Susan Hall

Containers / Development / Kubernetes / Open Source

CloudNative Day Pancake Podcast: Containers at Scale, Mantl, and Preserving Open Source Communities

20 Sep 2016 9:39am, by Kiran Oliver

API Management / Cloud Native / Kubernetes / Contributed

Cloud Foundry’s Service Broker API Role in Kubernetes and Open Source Platforms

19 Sep 2016 10:31am, by Chip Childers

Containers / Kubernetes

How CoreOS Tectonic is Streamlining Kubernetes for the Enterprise

19 Sep 2016 10:07am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

The Container Networking Landscape: CNI from CoreOS and CNM from Docker

16 Sep 2016 11:47am, by Lee Calcote

Containers / Kubernetes / Networking

TNS Tutorial Friday: The CoreOS rkt Container Engine, What It Is and How It Compares to Docker

16 Sep 2016 10:39am, by Kiran Oliver

Containers / Development / Kubernetes

Parity Check: Node.js, JVM and the Surprising Results About Docker Swarm

16 Sep 2016 9:45am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Cloud Native / Containers / Kubernetes

Context: Kubernetes, OpenStack and How SAP Built its Own Containerized Platform

15 Sep 2016 11:23am, by Scott M. Fulton III

Cloud Native / Containers / Development / DevOps / Kubernetes / Open Source

ContainerCon Pancake Breakfast: The Health of the Container Ecosystem, Vendor Lock-In and the Tyranny of Choice

13 Sep 2016 11:49am, by Kiran Oliver

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Architecture

  • Cloud Native
  • Containers
  • Edge/IoT
  • Microservices
  • Networking
  • Serverless
  • Storage

Development

  • Cloud Services
  • Data
  • Development
  • Machine Learning
  • Security

Operations

  • CI/CD
  • Culture
  • DevOps
  • Kubernetes
  • Monitoring
  • Service Mesh
  • Tools

The New Stack

  • Ebooks
  • Podcasts
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • About / Contact
  • Sponsors
  • Sponsorship
  • Disclosures
  • Contributions
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Soundcloud
  • LinkedIn
  • Slideshare
  • RSS

© 2021 The New Stack. All rights reserved.

Privacy Policy. Terms of Use.