understanding kubernetes from 0

kubernetes ?

This is one of a series of articles for beginners who are trying to understand why we need containers and orchestration tools.

This is one of that question that everyone asks in their organization and answering this really needs to take them through the chronicles of Infrastructure. So yeah, we are not going to find the flaws in the historical application deployments and maintenance methods or process. Instead we are going to understand how the technology evolved since then and give ourselves an applause for embracing that.

To get started let’s go back in time by ourselves and work through the clock. May be let’s start from 1989 for our theory. Now lets start a retail shop in 1989 and lets call it as the-retail-shop. We need to set up an office with simple infrastructure where we are running the server and exposing the service to our customers all over the country.

A simple infrastructure setup (only for illustrative purpose; real infra has more delicate and secure connections)

Without going into the complication of the development, testing and production environments; the idea depicted in the above picture is, we bought some real good physical machines. These are the servers that are going to run our application. Then there are the…