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Fulton Browne
Fulton Browne

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What is Kubernetes?

I am very interested in to the nature of Kubernetes, I kinda have an idea of what it is, but not really. What the heck is Kubernetes?

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Joel Murphy

A container orchestrator. Imagine playing Tetris with your Docker containers to make the most of your computing resources to support scale and failover, well this is what K8s does in its simplest form.

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Fulton Browne

Thanks, that really helped me.

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James.Scott

Have you read the Kubernetes comic? cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine...

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Fulton Browne

Thanks, Scotty.

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James.Scott

Also this: