they start and stop together) and can share data using volumes. Pods are collections of Docker containers co-located on the same host. Pods: are the most basic unit in Kubernetes. In this second part, we will get hands-on, setup a local cluster and deploy a Nginx web server.Īn application and its desired state is described in terms of several fundamental units in Kubernetes. Kubernetes will very soon be production-ready with the 1.0 release scheduled for this month.

In Part 1 of this series of blogs, we introduced Kubernetes, an open source container management system from Google, based on operational systems that run over 2 billion containers a week. Update the current post now contains mostly outdated information, we now suggested to our customers that they use Tarmak or a cloud provider managed offering to run Kubernetes.