Kubernetes
Similar to Docker Swarm is Kubernetes (often abbreviated as k8s), an open-source Google project for managing containers in a cluster.
Kubernetes acts as a framework for deploying, scheduling, maintaining, updating, and scaling microservices. In essence, it abstracts the process of deploying the service from the user and actively monitors the state of the application infrastructure to ensure integrity. If a problem occurs, Kubernetes can automatically rebuild and redeploy a failed container.
A key difference between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm is how they treat clusters of containers. With Docker Swarm, individual containers are unified under a single API. With Kubernetes, containers are grouped into logical units which are then managed, ...
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