Summary: What Is Kubernetes?

Recap

At the top of the chapter, we understood that Kubernetes is an orchestrator of cloud native microservices applications.

Now that we’ve explained the jargon, you know this means “Kubernetes runs and manages applications comprised of small specialized parts that can self-heal, scale, and be updated independently without downtime.” Those specialized parts are called microservices, and each one is usually deployed in its own container.

However, that’s still a lot, and you don’t need to understand everything yet. We’ll continue explaining things, and we’ll get hands-on with lots of examples that will help.