1300 659 575    hello@polarseven.com
  • Partners
  • About Us
  • Contact
Service Desk   Let's Talk
PolarSeven PolarSeven PolarSeven PolarSeven
  • Services
    • View all Services
      • Advisory & Consulting
      • Cloud Build, Migration & Transformation
      • DevOps & Automation
      • Cloud & Cost Optimisation
      • Security & Compliance
      • Cloud Dev & App Modernisation
      • Data, Analytics & IoT
      • Remote Working
      • Well-Architected Framework Review
      • Managed Cloud
    • Industry Solutions
      • Public Sector
      • Education
    • The PolarSeven Methodology
    • Remote Working

      Powered by AWS

  • Case Studies
  • Blogs
  • AWS Meetups
  • Resources
    • AWS Cost Optimisation eBook
PolarSeven PolarSeven
  • Services
    • View all Services
      • Advisory & Consulting
      • Cloud Build, Migration & Transformation
      • DevOps & Automation
      • Cloud & Cost Optimisation
      • Security & Compliance
      • Cloud Dev & App Modernisation
      • Data, Analytics & IoT
      • Remote Working
      • Well-Architected Framework Review
      • Managed Cloud
    • Industry Solutions
      • Public Sector
      • Education
    • The PolarSeven Methodology
    • Remote Working

      Powered by AWS

  • Case Studies
  • Blogs
  • AWS Meetups
  • Resources
    • AWS Cost Optimisation eBook
  • Thursday, 4 January 2018

Benefits of Using Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a buzzword in the container system race and for good reason: it speeds up the application development while lowering costs in the process.

Kubernetes runs on Google technology. Before Kubernetes, Google used an even more complex system called Borg, which ran all of Google’s wide array of services like Google Maps and Gmail. Kubernetes aims to accomplish this enormous task, this time for container systems. Here’s why you should use it to Dockerize your applications.

When applications are tested, developers move them from one environment to another to check that they run accordingly. Of course, this means setting up all kinds of test environments with varying security and network settings, as well as multiple operating systems.

By packaging development environments in containers, you do away with infrastructure differences altogether. Since each container would contain all you need to run an app, developers may deploy applications consistently, rapidly, and reliably. Containers are also lighter than virtual machines, consumes fewer resources, and can be installed anywhere. Hence, usage of container services like Docker have gone through the roof.

But with Kubernetes, Docker is doubly useful.

Supporting Container Systems

The difference between Kubernetes and Docker is that the former is a container management tool. As a container system, Docker can modularise applications into smaller parts. But you still want to manage, monitor, and integrate these parts. You will want to track them for resource usage and allocate more where needed. Which is what Kubernetes does.

Kubernetes architecture organises and co-locates the containers into logical units called pods. They share resources such as IP addresses, file systems, and storage. You don’t have to stuff a container image with too many objects, making it lighter and more manageable.

Superior Container Management

Kubernetes Deployment Controller helps ease the management of containers:

Kubernetes is excellent for integration into a Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment pipeline (CICD). It handles a lot of the heavy lifting required with classic infrastructure as code (IaC) environments. It’s built-in deployment model is very well thought out and used by many clients. The current and recommend way to use deployments is to use the deployment functionality as a controller. The deployment controller defines how an application should be structured (for example a three-tier app) and what pods need to be launched and how they communicate with each other. This allows you to upgrade applications very easily either with a rolling-update functionality or with a simulated blue/green deployment model.

  • Scaling – It lets you do first-time deployment of software across pods, and you may scale the deployments in or out as needed. You may even pause and resume a deployment.
  • Horizontal Scaling – You may also scale the number of required containers up or down, either manually or automatically, depending on CPU usage.
  • Version Control and Upgrading – You may update pods to the latest versions of applications, or you may downgrade as needed.
  • Visibility – You can immediately identify successful and failed deployments using status queries. Kubernetes automatically restarts failed containers to the desired state in order to maintain applications. Should a node in the cluster die, then its containers get rescheduled to different nodes.

Agnostic System

With Kubernetes, you are not relegated to just using Docker. You may use Kubernetes in conjunction with Azure Container Service, AWS EC2, IBM, RackSpace, and more. Kubernetes also supports a wide variety of applications without setting limits on things like application frameworks and supported language runtimes—if it runs on a container, it should run on Kubernetes. It also supports various types of workloads (stateless, state-ful, data processing).

For a deeper look at Kubernetes architecture, read our introduction to this system and follow this in-depth guide. You can also find a Kubernetes tutorial on running it in AWS. Finally, if you would like to get your enterprise started on Kubernetes, read about how you can do at our PolarSeven webpage.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Pinterest
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • E-Mail
Discover More
Read More
  • Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Hire DevOps or Utilise DevOps as a Service?

According to a recent report, the market value of DevOps will grow to US$17 billion by 2026. That means IT... read more →
Read More
  • Thursday, 13 August 2020

Five Essentials for Developing Modern Applications

Modern Applications is what we refer to cloud-native software built with today’s agility, performance and security needs in mind. It... read more →
  • Case studies
  • Services
  • Resources

Article Categories

  • Articles
  • AWS
  • AWS Industry News
  • AWS User Group
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Security and Compliance
  • Containers
  • DevOps Automation
  • Miscellaneous
  • PolarSeven News
  • Remote Work
AWS Sydney User Group

Tags

Amazon AppStream 2.0 Amazon Web Services Amazon WorkSpaces application modernisation applications app modernisation AppStream AppStream 2.0 AWS aws devops AWS Spot Instances CFO Chief financial Officer cloud application security Cloud Migration cloud security Containerisation Containers continuous delivery automation DevOps devops outsourcing devops services ecs eks Fargate iaas kubernetes Landing Zones legacy applications Meetup microservices Microsoft Workloads mobile modern applications paas Polar Bear PolarSeven purpose-built databases remote work remote working saas serverless computing Session Manager User Group

Recent Articles

  • Hire DevOps or Utilise DevOps as a Service? September 23, 2020
  • Five Essentials for Developing Modern Applications August 13, 2020
  • New pricing for AWS Spot Instances July 7, 2020

PolarSeven’s vision is to be a customer centric, Amazon Web Services consultancy, where cloud computing is seen as a key enabler to our customers needs and challenges. “We help our customers achieve amazing things…..”

Links

  • Home
  • PolarSeven Methodology
  • Client Case Studies
  • Articles
  • About Us

Contact

Level 2, 13-15 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney, 2000 Phone: 1300 659 575 E-Mail: hello@polarseven.com
@2015-2021 All Rights Reserved | PolarSeven PTY LTD | Terms & Privacy Policy