Kubernetes : foreword about containerization before to start

Before to be a fan or a kubernetes, you need to be a container believer.

Why ? Because without container no kubernetes but not only that. Containerization is a real game changer in the software industry. Docker has brought us the cli, image and lot of stuffs for an easy usage of containers. But the concept of container tackle same issues as container or car factory solved. How to industrialize the IT ?

We can summarize the challenge with a short list of challenges

• container give us a new deliverable, you put all in the box and store that somewhere where your sysadmin can pull it : uniform to let the old tar.gz and these issues (handle dependencies, statics, versionning…)
• better deployments : in a car factory, you want to product more cars each days… this is the same thing with release or microservice production. You need to iterate easily.
• easy to version : with the OCI model and docker you can tag images easily. That doesn’t change the fact that you need to have some rules (semantic version…).
• push up the opensource with previous abilities and finally brought us in a virtuous…