Why the adoption of Kubernetes will explode in 2018
Kubernetes is an open-source orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications at scale. When your requires a large number of containers, you need a tool to group containers into logical units, and to track, manage and monitor them all. Kubernetes helps you do that and is considered the de facto tool for container management.
The Kubernetes project is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and has over 1500 contributors. It was started at Google, which still leads development efforts.
Docker adoption is still growing exponentially and more and more companies have started using it in Production. It is important to use an orchestration platform to scale and manage your containers. Imagine a situation where you have been using Docker for a little while, and have deployed on a few different servers. Your application starts getting massive traffic, and you need to scale up fast, how will you go from 3 servers to 40 servers that you may require? And how will you decide which container should go where? How would you monitor all these containers and make sure they are restarted if they exit? This is where Kubernetes comes in.