Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automated deployment, scaling, and management of containers and containerized applications.
Features of Kubernetes:
- Automating many processes of applications and services deployment that before were carried out manually
- Kubernetes checks constantly the health of nodes and containers
- It takes care of scaling and failover for the application
- Kubernetes is able to load balance and distribute the network traffic so that the deployment is stable.
- Scale resources and applications in real time
- Orchestrate containers on multiple hosts