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Kubernetes vs OpenShift: This Is What You Need To Know

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Kubernetes is the most popular orchestration engine - on the other hand, OpenShift from Redhat is one of the most popular implementations of this orchestration engine.

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Three Kubernetes Success Stories to Inspire Your Next Application

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"When you're entertaining more than 200 million people with your music streaming service, the stakes are a little higher than usual."

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From Abacus to Containers - A Brief History of Computing

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We live in a world built by our collective ingenuity and imagination. We see further and more than our predecessors, not because of keener vision or greater heights but because we are standing on the shoulders of giants that came before us.
The Japanese word "sensei" literally means the person who came before.

From Abacus to Containers - A Brief History of Computing
Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is an open-source orchestration platform designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It acts as a "brain" for your infrastructure, ensuring that your containers run exactly where and how they should across a cluster of physical or virtual machines, abstracting away the underlying hardware to treat the entire data center as a single computational resource.

At its core, Kubernetes operates on a declarative model: you define the "desired state" of your application—such as how many replicas should be running or how much CPU they should use - and the system continuously works to maintain that state. If a container crashes or a node fails, Kubernetes automatically detects the discrepancy and restarts or reschedules the workload to ensure zero downtime, providing a self-healing environment that is critical for modern, high-availability systems.

Beyond simple container management, Kubernetes provides a robust ecosystem for networking, storage, and security. It handles service discovery and load balancing internally, allowing containers to communicate seamlessly without hardcoded IP addresses, and orchestrates storage mounting from various providers. By standardizing how applications are deployed and scaled, Kubernetes enables developers to move from local development to global production with consistent and predictable results.