19.3 Facilitating Enterprise Workloads Management with Kubernetes

• Kubernetes solves all three of the key enterprise IT/Admin challenges with running servers.

• Increasing the processing power of your cluster is usually as simple as a few mouse clicks. On the other side, this makes it risky from a cost perspective.

• Helm is the standard tool for defining what’s running in the cluster.

• Instead of the ten steps required in a typical server-based deployment. There are just three steps for Kubernetes.

• What are the biggest strengths of Kubernetes as a scaling tool? What are some drawbacks?

  • Strengths:

    • Automatic Load Balancing

    • Horizontal Scaling

    • Infrastructure Agnosticism

  • Drawbacks:

    • Managing and maintaining a Kubernetes cluster can be complex and time-consuming and really requires a highly competent Kubernetes admin

    • Networking in Kubernetes can also be quite complicated.