Container Orchestration

Container orchestration is the automated deployment, management, scaling, and networking of containers. It allows you to easily manage containerized applications across clusters of hosts.

Orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Apache Mesos provide a layer of abstraction that enables you to treat groups of containers as logical units. For example, you can define applications comprised of different microservices and have the orchestrator handle replication for availability, load balancing between containers, rolling updates, resource monitoring, and more.

With orchestration, you don't have to manually spin up containers or configure networking. You define the desired state of your application stack in a declarative way and the orchestrator handles all the underlying infrastructure and scaling. This makes it easier to deploy and operate complex, distributed container environments. Key capabilities include service discovery, automated rollouts/rollbacks, self-healing, and horizontal scaling.