- Purpose: Container orchestration platform designed for managing containers across multiple hosts.
- Usage: Best suited for large-scale container deployments needing self-healing, auto-scaling, and high availability. Kubernetes handles container lifecycle management across clusters of machines.
- Interaction:
- Terraform can provision Kubernetes clusters.
- Ansible can automate the deployment and configuration of services within a Kubernetes cluster.
- Docker serves as the container runtime, but Kubernetes provides more robust orchestration for multi-node clusters.