{"id":10465,"date":"2020-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/what-is-kubernetes-in-azure-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:38:27","slug":"what-is-kubernetes-in-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/what-is-kubernetes-in-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Kubernetes in Azure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is Kubernetes?<\/strong> Some of you may know this as the Greek word for helmsman or pilot, but I\u2019m talking about Kubernetes in the Azure cloud. To make a connection between the Greek word and what major technology companies are calling the next big thing in computing, <strong>think of Kubernetes as a tool for safely piloting our applications and keeping them from crashing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cloud apps increasingly run in aptly named containers. These containers hold applications, dependencies and any configurations. The trick is these containers aren\u2019t tied down to one piece of hardware; they can run nearly anywhere across different servers and clouds. It\u2019s how companies like Google manage to scale Gmail or Google Maps across the over billion users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-responsive-embed-wrapper hs-responsive-embed\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding: 0; max-width: 560px; max-height: 315px; min-width: 256px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;\">\n<div class=\"hs-responsive-embed-inner-wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQMWsHvOgZM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What is Kubernetes and where does it fit in?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1013px;\" src=\"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/KubernetesCluster-003-1.jpg\" alt=\"KubernetesCluster (003)\" width=\"1013\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kubernetes (also known as K8s) is an open source container system for managing and scaling business applications.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This orchestration software allows you to <strong>deploy and manage microservices that make up your technology stack.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When deploying applications across cloud environments it <strong>allows for portability and scalability<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Using Kubernetes:<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>takes less time to manage<\/li>\n<li>decreases your downtime<\/li>\n<li>reduces IT costs<\/li>\n<li>improves your overall speed to deploy a new app<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Azure blog defines it as a way to help teams orchestrate a cluster of virtual machines and schedule containers to run on those virtual machines based on their available resources in the resource requirements of each container. Kubernetes:\n<ul>\n<li>Helps manage service discovery<\/li>\n<li>Incorporates load balancing<\/li>\n<li>Tracks your resource allocation<\/li>\n<li>Checks the health of individual resources<\/li>\n<li>Enables apps to self-heal by automatically restarting and replicating them to new containers as needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What are the benefits of using Kubernetes?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Portability<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 seamlessly move your containerized workloads from a local development environment to your production system. Also, it orchestrates the containers consistently in different environments across your on-premise infrastructure and public and hybrid clouds.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Scalability<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 defines and containerizes complex applications and allows you to deploy them globally across multiple clusters of servers in different regions while optimizing their resources.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Extensibility<\/strong> <\/em>\u2013 access to a wide collection of open source extensions and plug-ins.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, it <strong>adds capabilities like security, monitoring and management that you already have set up to use in your Azure ecosystem.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What can we do with Kubernetes in Azure?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Azure provides the <strong>Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) which makes deploying and managing your containerized apps easy.<\/strong> It lets you <strong>take a Kubernetes cluster and you can deploy that into a serverless environment in Azure, thus removing the need to maintain, upgrade and monitor all the individual VM servers.\u00a0 (see image below)<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1050px;\" src=\"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AzureKubernetes.jpg\" alt=\"AzureKubernetes\" width=\"1050\" \/><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>integrates us directly into the existing Azure infrastructure<\/strong>, <strong>so you can integrate with Azure DevOps, as well as tie into Azure AD, Monitor, Key Vault, storage, etc.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This <strong>gives you enterprise grade security, monitoring and governance right out of the box<\/strong>, which unites your development and operations on a single platform so you can quickly build, deliver and scale your applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are incredible benefits to using Kubernetes in Azure and you can easily see why tech companies are calling it the next big thing in computing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Kubernetes? 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