Kubernetes Features

Muti host container scheduling

• Handled by Kube scheduler which assigns pods (containers) to nodes at runtime
• Checks resources, quality of service, policies and user specification before scheduling

Scalability and Availability

• supports 5000+ node clusters
• 150,000 total pods
• max 100 pods per node

Flexibility and Modularization

• Plug and play architecture
• Add-ons: network drivers, service discovery, container runtime, visualization and command

Registration and Service Discovery

• Worker nodes can seamlessly register themselves with master node
• Automatic detection of services and endpoints via DNS or environment variables

Persistent Storage

• Pods can use persistent volumes to store data

Application Upgrades/Downgrades

• rolling updates and rollbacks supported

Logging and Monitoring

• built-in app monitoring : TCP, HTTP or container execution are supported out of the box
• node health check
• built-in logging framework

Secrets Management

• secrets are mounted as data volumes or environment variables
• specific to namespace

Community

• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)