Containers offer unmatched benefits in terms of density, deployment speed, and scalability in comparison to virtualization. But containers by themselves are not enough to match all the requirements of today's business, which expects the infrastructure to be adaptable to dynamic challenges. It is quite simple to start and manage a couple dozen containers, but things get complicated when the number climbs to hundreds, which is very common for large workloads. This is where Container Orchestration Engines (COE) come in. They bring true power to containers, offering various mechanisms to deploy, destroy, and scale multiple containers rapidly.
There are multiple container management solutions available, with the most popular being Kubernetes and Docker Swarm:
- Kubernetes: First released in July 2015, Kubernetes comes directly from Borg—...