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K8s is about cluster orchestration. It's for building apps that allocate memory and compute from a pool of machines almost like malloc() and free(). It's also a
by barrkel 8y ago
K8s is about cluster orchestration. It's for building apps that allocate memory and compute from a pool of machines almost like malloc() and free(). It's also an abstraction for allocating compute away from the specifics of a provider, so you theoretically don't care if you deploy to gcloud or Azure or AWS. Containers and images merely define the interface with the agnostically allocated compute. They're not the essential bit though, not the magic.
- djsumdog 8y agoRight, and there are some scheduling systems like Maraton/mesos that can be used to control jobs or VMs as well (although they're more often used with containers than anything else these days). Can K8s run VMs or is its only abstraction containers/pods?
- nwmcsween 8y agoI never said K8s wasn't about orchestration, I said why push containers in their current horribly broken form