Why has Kubernetes Become so Popular in Data Engineering?
Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for deployment, scaling, management, and automating computer applications. It’s about six years old and has become a growing rage in data engineering for the past two years. It started as a Linux kernel process insolation construct that encloses cgroups from 2007 and namespaces from 2002. Containers became popular when LXC became available in 2008, and Google created its own internal Borg. Kubernetes was released in 2015 and rapidly grew to become the de facto container orchestration standard. Let’s take a deep look into why Kubernetes became so popular in data engineering. The Rise of Kubernetes A container is a software package consisting of application code, system libraries, runtime, and other settings required to run an application. Containers have been an integral part of Linux since the 1980s. It only became relevant when Docker burst came into the scene with its variety of formats and tools for containers. So much so t...