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What is Kubernetes? Container orchestration explained

IT World

Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration — that is, for the management of applications built out of multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. By making containerized applications dramatically easier to manage at scale, Kubernetes has become a key part of the container revolution.

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The Next Chapter for StackRox

Tom Tunguz

By joining forces with RedHat, StackRox, which provides Kubernetes-native security, completes the next step a journey that started six ago, and will become a key part of OpenShift. The world of container and Kubernetes security evolved enormously during the past six years. Today, RedHat announced that it has acquired StackRox.

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Kubernetes vs. Docker: Understand containers and orchestration

IT World

If you’ve kept up with the latest trends in software development, there are two terms you’ve undoubtedly encountered again and again: Docker and Kubernetes , which are essentially shorthand for containers and orchestration.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Managed databases.

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10 Kubernetes distributions leading the container revolution

IT World

Kubernetes has become the project to turn to if you need container orchestration at scale. The open source container orchestration system out of Google is well-regarded, well-supported, and evolving fast. Kubernetes is also sprawling, complex, and difficult to set up and configure.

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Eirini project brings Kubernetes to Cloud Foundry

IT World

Eirini, an open source project that integrates the Cloud Foundry cloud application platform with the Kubernetes container management platform , is now available in a “tech preview” from IBM. With Eirini, Cloud Foundry users can choose between Diego and Kubernetes to orchestrate application container instances.

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What is Kubernetes? Container orchestration explained

IT World

This gives rise to the need for container orchestration —a tool that automates the deployment, management, scaling, networking, and availability of container-based applications. To read this article in full, please click here