The container orchestrator landscape [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/905164/8c13fabaff641359/ · Docker and other container engines can greatly simplify many aspects of deploying a server-side application, but numerous applications consist of more than one container. Managing a group of containers only gets harder as additional applications and services are deployed; this has led to the development of a class of tools called container orchestrators. The best-known of these by far is Kubernetes; the history of container orchestration can be divided into what came before it and what came after.