Container Orchestration Overview (Kubernetes / ECS)

Summary

A preview of how containers are managed at scale — Kubernetes is the open-source, cloud-agnostic standard, while ECS is AWS's simpler, more tightly integrated alternative, both covered in depth in Phase 9.

• 1Read a conceptual comparison of Kubernetes and ECS's complexity and flexibility trade-offs.
• 2Learn why running more than a handful of containers manually becomes unmanageable without orchestration.
• 3Preview Phase 9 for the hands-on mechanics of each option.