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Kubernetes Simplified

A comprehensive introduction for beginners

Emmanuel Oyibo
Dev Genius
8 min readAug 3, 2024

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In today’s fast-paced digital world, where applications need to be scalable, reliable, and lightning-fast, a powerful tool stands as the backbone of modern software development.

Kubernetes, often abbreviated as K8s, is like an orchestra conductor for your software. It makes sure all the different parts (containers) of your application work smoothly.

K8s scales up or down your application as needed, and recover quickly if anything goes wrong. This is called container orchestration and it’s essential for creating reliable, high-performing software today.

In this article, we’ll break down Kubernetes in a way that’s easy to understand, even if you’re new to the concept. We’ll look at where it came from, what problems it solves, and how it stacks up against other tools out there.

The Origin and Evolution of Kubernetes

Kubernetes has a fascinating history that traces back to Google. It all started with Borg, Google’s internal system for managing the massive scale of their containerized applications.

Borg was Google’s secret weapon, allowing them to run billions of containers a week, long before anyone else was even thinking about it.

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