Container Orchestration
What is Orchestration?
Orchestration, when placed within the context of information technology enterprises, is essentially the automated coordination of automated activities.
Container orchestration is all about managing the lifecycles of containers, especially in large, dynamic environments.
Orchestration, when placed within the context of information technology enterprises, is essentially the automated coordination of automated activities. In an effective DevOps culture, automation and orchestration work hand in hand to streamline application deployment.
Software teams use container orchestration to control and automate many tasks:
- Provisioning and deployment of containers
- Redundancy and availability of containers
- Scaling up or removing containers to spread application load evenly across host infrastructure
- Movement of containers from one host to another if there is a shortage of resources in a host, or if a host dies
- Allocation of resources between containers
- External exposure of services running in a container with the outside world
- Load balancing of service discovery between containers
- Health monitoring of containers and hosts
- Configuration of an application in relation to the containers running it.