I don’t have a computer science background and I often hear people talk about containers and Kubernetes. I frankly have no idea what it is and how it is different from a virtual machine (remote computer). Would like to understand what this is and why it is useful.
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* A container is basically a lightweight virtual machine.
* Kubernetes (also known as k8s) is software for managing containers; you tell it what containers you need running and it starts them up for you. It can do things like checking that they’re still running (and restarting them if they crash), or managing upgrades to a new version of the container by restarting them one by one, etc.
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