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The Good and the Bad of Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Altexsoft

Containers have become the preferred way to run microservices — independent, portable software components, each responsible for a specific business task (say, adding new items to a shopping cart). Modern apps include dozens to hundreds of individual modules running across multiple machines— for example, eBay uses nearly 1,000 microservices.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

Altexsoft

These are different environments that use different operating systems with different requirements. With Docker, applications and their environments are virtualized and isolated from each other on a shared operating system of the host computer. Docker containers. is emulated. is emulated. Hardware isn’t virtualized.

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What is container orchestration?

CircleCI

Containers make managing resources easier since they do not include operating system (OS) images. An organization developing with microservices needs each service to communicate with the others to enable an easy flow of work. However, a good load balancer solves the problem of traffic with ease. Networking.