You may have a vast amount of
experience with DevOps and
traditional lifecycles, but container
lifecycle management means
rethinking most of what you did
in the past.
The Power of Orchestration
When considering container ops, you need to explore container orchestration.
Here, it is important to note that a container orchestration engine such as
Kubernetes can pool multiple containers, which may reside in separate ker-
nels, managing them as a single logical entity. This helps you coordinate the
containers as a single application solution, and that makes them much easier to
manage.
You should consider container orchestration tools as a path to define the
deployment of containers, as well as a means for their ongoing management.
That will cover ops issues such as availability, performance, and scaling, as well
as networking and even production updates to the containers. Moreover, these
tools can handle the application of rules and policies for host placement, pro-
visioning, configuration, and scheduling.
Unexplored Terrain
When you’re on the bleeding edge, count on bleeding. You may have a vast
amount of experience with DevOps and traditional lifecycles, but container
lifecycle management means rethinking most of what you did in the past.
It’s time to take some risks and get ahead of these issues. You’ll have to solve
these problems sooner or later if containers are a key enabling technology
within your enterprise.
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