After reading Chapter 6, Running Containers with Java Applications, you now have a lot of knowledge about using Docker to package your Java applications. It's now time to move even further and focus on what we are missing--the container management and orchestration. There are some suitable tools on the market, such as Nomad, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, or AZK, for example. In this chapter, we will focus on probably the most popular one, Kubernetes. Kubernetes (sometimes referred to as k8s) is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers, created by Google in 2015. The first unified container management system developed at Google was the system, internally called, Borg; Kubernetes is its descendant. The list of topics covered in this chapter will be:
- Why and when we need container management
- An introduction to Kubernetes
- Basic Kubernetes...
