Microservices & Container Orchestration

Question 1

What is Kubernetes

Answer 1

Kubernetes is an open-source solution to managing containers at scale. Kubernetes is a “portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services.

Question 2

What is a Cluster

Answer 2

Collection of nodes pooling their resources together. Workloads are deployed to the cluster which then manages the appropriate distribution of the workload internally.

Question 3

What is a Pod

Answer 3

Kubernetes pods are a logical collection of related containers that share storage and network resources. Containers inside a pod are relatively tightly coupled.

Question 4

What is a container

Answer 4

Containers are a form of application deployment virtualization. They help developers to wrap an app release with its environment information and other data that will help in smooth deployment on production servers

Question 5

What is a node

Answer 5

A node is the smallest computing unit in a Kubernetes setup. Normally, it represents a single machine in your infrastructure and consists of computing power and memory