Kubernetes (K8s)

Kubernetes - K8s 
 Developed by Google, Kubernetes is an enterprise container management system, often used for automating deployments into large scale environments. 
 example (basic) Kubernetes diagram: 
 
 Developers use an API - made up of CM (Configuration Management database), sched (scheduler - scheduled deployment changes), and etcd (database used for managing configuration files across systems). 
 kubelet - Each kubelet represents a separate device or system. 
 pod - 1 or more containers. Pods are deployed onto Kubelets. 
 kube-proxy - balancing clients across pods on a kubelet.