Kubernetes in 2 minutes

Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by Google, and is now maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Kubernetes Design and Architecture

Goals

• Portable
• General-purpose.
• Flexible
• Extensible
• Automatable

Architecture

• Cluster control plane (AKA master)
• API Server
• Cluster state store (etcd)
• Controller-Manager Server
• Scheduler

The Kubernetes Node

• Kubelet
• Container runtime
• Service Proxy

Add-ons and other dependencies

A number of components, called add-ons typically run on Kubernetes itself: DNS

• Ingress controller
• Heapster (resource monitoring)
• Dashboard (GUI)

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