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Container Orchestrator
Container Orchestrator
What is it
What it does
Dynamically schedules container workloads within a cluster of computers →
Distributed computing
Provides a standardized application definition file (kube yaml, docker
compose, etc)
Traits
1. Allow containers within an application to be scheduled completely separately
Allows the utilization of large cluster
Individual containers fail
Container Host fail (disk, network, reboot)
Container Engine fail (corruption, start)
Individual containers need to be scaled up, down