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Introduction to Kubernetes (k8) – a quick lookback
6 years ago I wrote a blog post on kubernetes for my IoT startup in 2018. Some things that changed since then: Kubernetes 2018 github stats: • Github (37,578 stars) * 1693 contributors Kubernetes 2024 github stats: • Github (109k stars) * 3674 contributors I think the numbers say a lot, it's gotten more popular and more used than 6 years ago, and we can definitely say that it's one of the most successfull open source projects ever.
Horizontal scaling, automated rollouts and rollbacks, self-healing, service discovery, load balancing, and better server utilization. Components include the Kubernetes master (API server, scheduler, controller manager) and nodes (kube-proxy, kubelet, pods). Containers within a pod share the same network and IPC namespace, IP address, and port space.
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