How we use Kubernetes to manage micro-services — a high-level view & Introduction
Why Kubernetes?
The simple answer is that it meets our needs quite nicely; and that it solves important, complex problems without us having to build the solutions ourselves. The obvious solutions Kubernetes provides are around scaling, bin-packing, and the fact that it allows services to be more or less ‘self-healing’.
Another critical consideration is deployments — ease of rollouts and rollbacks. We have built complex infrastructure around deployments, but more on that in another post to come.