Introduction to Kubernetes: what problems does it solve?

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  • kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

  • If you or a company decides to give Kubernetes a try you might end up with a problem — how to run it? Theoretically it’s possible to clone it’s source code, compile and run it, but it requires so much effort of time and expertise so that you’ll probably decide that K8s is not for you.

  • metrics-server

    Scalable and efficient source of container resource metrics for Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipelines.

  • By default Kubernetes provides Metrics Server for providing such metrics, but it can be replaced by custom one. The most popular one is Prometheus.

  • InfluxDB

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  • minikube

    Run Kubernetes locally

  • Minikube, Kubernetes in Docker Desktop or Minishift are usually used for local development,

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