Kubernetes and Docker

02/22/2024    

The New Hotness

Everyone is looking to turn their applications into microservices and make use of containers these days. There are many benefits to doing so, monolithic applications can be very time consuming to patch and patching such an application creates downtime. I stumbled upon a really good book that describes the various scenarios (microservices included) that are driving the desire to use containers: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-distributed-systems/9781491983638/.

Learning How To Use Containers

It's good to understand why people are moving containers, it was my goal to learn more about how to administer such environments. I found a very thorough introductory video on using containers, docker, and kubernetes at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTp5xUtcalw. The presenter in the video takes his time, and works through each of the concepts one by one.