Training Guide

Kubernetes is all the rage, but many admins find themselves struggling to get started. We present the basic architecture and the most important components and terms.

Martin Loschwitz

Kubernetes is one of the most dazzling attractions in the current circus of IT tools. Once developed by Google, it is now under the aegis of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and has therefore become a genuine community project. However, Kubernetes (aka K8s, because of the eight letters between the K and the s) also seems to have driven a wedge into the normally closed ranks of administrators. Container advocates often can’t imagine IT without containers and the right choice of orchestrator, whereas others have had little reason to consider Kubernetes until recently, which sometimes leads to a defiant reaction. Old habits can die hard. This behavior is understandable, because the Kubernetes universe is now dominated by a kind of tech-speak that outsiders need to learn before diving in.…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2022

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