Thanks to a massive digital transformation across industries, accessing different applications through different smart devices has never been so easy. Among numerous applications, platforms, processes, tools and technologies that have aided this transformation are DevOps and Cloud.

1. Kubernetes - An Introduction
Thanks to a massive digital transformation across industries, accessing
different applications through different smart devices has never been so
easy. Among numerous applications, platforms, processes, tools and
technologies that have aided this transformation are DevOps and Cloud.
These services sometimes called the cloud computing stack play a pivotal
role in the ongoing digitaltransformation that we witness every day.
We do know about different cloud computing providers such as Amazon
Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure et al. Now, how
about transferring your applications to these cloud platforms for your
ease of business? There are many open-source and closed-source
software systems that facilitatethis process. One of these specially built
open-source systems is Kubernetes.
What is Kubernetes?
The term Kubernetes has its origin in Greek vocabulary which means
“Helmsman of the ship.” The meaning quite aptly describes the working
principle of the open source system. Kubernetes, in simple terms, means
a “ Orchestration of Containers.” Grouping containers and making up an
application into small logical units for superior management and
discovery has become possible with the use of Kubernetes. It is written in
Go Language and is managed by “Cloud Native Computing Foundation,”
a vendor-neutral entity focused on managing “cloud native” projects.
Kubernetes: A special Google spinoff
Features of Kubernetes at a glance
 Service discovery and load-balancing

2.  Manual process automation (automatic bin-packing)
 Seamless interactionwith several container groups
 Management of containers
 Other services: Offers security, networking, and storage services
 Continuous health monitoring of nodes and containers
 Orchestration of storage
 Automated rollouts and rollbacks
 Balancing of containers by calculating the ‘best location’ for them
 Runs on any infrastructure- on-premises, hybrid, or cloud
 Scaling-up and scaling-down of applications
Kubernetes is a special spinoff of Google. Hence, it features a lot of
characteristicsbased on Google’s principle. The product saw the light of
the digitalworld through the experiences gained from the development of
Google’s Borg and Omega. Google (open) sourced Kubernetes in the year
2014 making it an extensively available platform for cluster management.
The main contributors to the development of Kubernetes apart from
Google are IBM, VMWare, CodeOS, Mesosphere, RedHat, IBM,
Microsoft, HP, Pivotal, SlatStack, etc.
Kubernetes helps you to scale up or scale down your applications, as per
your need and is a highly adaptive platform which runs thousands of
containers every week.
Kubernetes — Extremely flexible and Highly scalable
Architecture

3. All the components of Kubernetes are little aware of each other’s
existence; they can function perfectly while being completely
independent of each other. Basically, these loosely coupled collection of
components are centered on the automatic deployment of applications to
the cloud while making maintenance and scaling your containers very
easy.
Also, being built up as a “Loosely coupled system,” the components can
be easily replaced. This feature makes it extremely easy for Kubernetes
to be integrated with a wide array of systems making your applications
work like a charm, over the cloud.
As an enterprise, one must consider taking advantage of DevOps and
Cloud in a growing ecosystem of successful deployment options.
Kubernetes being an adaptive and progressive platform helps you exactly

4. with the same. It has features such as automatic roll-out or roll-back on
changes to your workloads running on containers.
What makes Kubernetes a perfect orchestration solution?
Kubernetes orchestrator provides the most sought after features of
orchestration for the automated arrangement, coordination and
management of containers in the clusters. Some of the additional features
of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform are as follows:
 Maintenance of the containers
 Checking the containers’ health and safety
 Monitoring the containers
 Post-failure restoration of the containers to their actual or mostly
desired state
 Access authorization to containers
Besides, Kubernetes can be run from anywhere as it has been built up as
an open source platform. So now, you can deploy your application
applications on any infrastructure- on-premises, private, hybrid or public
cloud, where it matters the most. Scaling up or scaling down, without
increasing your Ops team is possible with Kubernetes as it features auto-
scaling of your applications. Even restarting and replacing failure
containers can be done swiftly with the help of Kubernetes.
Kubernetes for managing containerized workloads
Use of Kubernetes platform is inevitable as containers do have an
inherent problem. Keeping track of your containers is the most difficult
and at the same time, an important task as cloud infrastructure
companies do their billing based on CPU time and storage. Kubernetes
makes sure that no container is spinning around in the cloud as an
orphaned program. Also, when you need more memory, CPU or storage,

5. Kubernetes automatically helps you achieve that by maximizing your
cloud set-up and as soon as the load becomes lighter, it shuts down the
containers. Thus, it helps in balancing the workload.
Why Kubernetes over any other similar platform?
Google has been using Kubernetes for almost a decade. Kubernetes has
been the unique selling point of Google for being able to run massive
virtual machines with utmost efficiency to date. Proper implementation
and use of these exclusive technologies such as Kubernetes has made the
digitaltransformation possible while DevOps and Cloud being two most
dependable pillars for it.
Loves Cloud has gained expertise in designing, deploying and
maintaining Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers. It has
successfully managed services like AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, and
delivered turnkey solutions like KOPS along with custom Highly
Available Kubernetes deployments.
At Loves Cloud, we are constantly leveraging the power of major public
cloud computing platforms along with multiple open source software
solutions to secure, optimize, automate and scale workloads of our
customers. To learn more about our services aimed at digital
transformation of your business, please visit https://www.loves.cloud/ or
write to us at biz@loves.cloud