Kubernetes introduces a new set of concepts for an environment working with Docker containers. We could say that Kubernetes does in production what Docker Compose does in development, but there is much more to it than that. Kubernetes is an open source system originally created for Google Cloud Engine, but you can use it with AWS or any other cloud provider. It is intended for remotely managing Docker clusters in different environments.

Kubernetes introduces the following main concepts:

• Pods
• Replication controllers
• Services
• Labels