Kubernetes can manage and control multiple containers in production environments in contrast to Docker, where you can only work with a few containers. You can consider Kubernetes as a container orchestration system. You can host a Docker container in bare metal, or a virtual machine node called a Docker host, and Kubernetes can co-ordinate across a cluster of these nodes.
Kubernetes makes your application self-healing by replacing unresponsive containers. It also provides horizontal scaling capabilities and a blue–green deployment ability to prevent any downtime. Kubernetes distributes incoming user traffic load between the container and manages the storage shared by various containers.
As shown in the following diagram, Kubernetes and Docker work well together to orchestrate your software application. Kubernetes handles network communication between Docker nodes and Docker containers:
Docker works as an individual piece of the application and...