Anyone who works in IT, in any capacity connected to software will have heard Kubernetes more than once.
While the answer is obvious to anyone in the prog/dev space and many people outside, for others it’s really unclear. People keep trying to explain it to me but it sounds like gibberish. please ?
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Kubernetes is like the cargo director at a port. When it comes to servers, you can package a server (e.g a web server) into what’s called a Container. Kubernetes in this case knows which containers need to be running, manages workload to bring new containers online (e.g traffic to your web serve increases so you spin up more copies of the container) or down (traffic goes down) and makes sure the Port is running smoothly.
In short, Kubernetes allows system admins to manage server workloads without having to physically add/remove servers. Kubernetes does the turning on and off of new servers as needed.
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