Container Orchestration Basics

Summary

Managing many containers across many machines — scheduling, scaling, networking, and self-healing — a problem that becomes unmanageable to handle manually beyond a handful of containers.

• 1List 3 problems orchestration solves that become painful to handle manually at scale.
• 2Learn the basic concepts shared across orchestrators: scheduling, desired state, and self-healing.
• 3Understand why orchestration exists as a distinct layer above just 'running containers'.