Working with Containers: Introduction to Kubernetes

No matter what the infrastructure is that you are using to manage your applications you are likely to find challenges trying to keep up when scaling out as demand for resources increases. The answer to this problem is automation and orchestration and one of the most common tools for providing automation and orchestration for containers is called Kubernetes. Explore this open-source container orchestration system. You will gain insight into the various terms associated with this software and investigate the common workflow used to produce containers and deploy software to scale. Then you will discover how to secure a Kubernetes Cluster. Finally you will examine Kubernetes use cases and identify the differences between Kubernetes and Docker. After course completion you will be able to work with Kubernetes containers outline the Kubernetes workflow and determine its situational usefulness.