Kubernetes is a popular production-grade container Orchestrator tool. Kubernetes automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Kubernetes includes the following features:
- Horizontal scaling
- Service discovery and load balancing
- Secrets and configuration management
- API-based automated rollouts and rollbacks
- Self-healing
The following diagram shows the architecture of an Azure Container Service cluster using Kubernetes:
For further information on Kubernetes please visit https://kubernetes.io/. The complete source code you can find at https://github.com/kubernetes. All three Orchestrators are open source projects with frequent version changes. These version changes are considered by Azure Container Service, but unfortunately there is currently no possibility to upgrade an existing deployment.