Kubernetes 101

So you’ve containerized your application, and now you want to deploy it scalably across a cluster. Maybe you’ve looked at Kubernetes but you can’t figure out how to use it. In one short session, we’ll teach you enough to get started. We’ll cover:

• What is Kubernetes?
• Configuring your apps
• Creating a deployment
• Tools to help: Ansible, Kompose and OpenCompose
• Scaling an application
• Failover and HA
• A Kubernetes GUI: Cockpit

Container orchestration doesn’t have to be hard; let me give you a push in the right direction.