Introduction

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing

containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative

configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem.

Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.

Google open-sourced the Kubernetes project in 2014. Kubernetes builds upon a

decade and a half of experience that Google has with running production

workloads at scale, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the

community.

Why do I need Kubernetes and what can it do?

Kubernetes has a number of features. It can be thought of as:

- container platform

- microservices platform

- portable cloud platform and a lot more.

Kubernetes provides a container-centric management environment. It orchestrates

computing, networking, and storage infrastructure on behalf of user workloads.

This provides much of the simplicity of Platform as a Service (PaaS) with the

flexibility of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and enables portability

across infrastructure providers.

Cisco CloudCenter

Cisco CloudCenter is an Application-Defined Management Platform that securely

provisions infrastructure resources and deploys application components and data

across more than 15 data center, private and public cloud environments.

Google - Kubernetes Application Deployment (C3)