It often feels like there is always one more thing to learn when you become a web developer. There seems to always be a new framework trending or a new way to deploy your apps to a server.
While it is impossible to keep up with everything happening in the web development world, learning specific technologies can make a significant difference to your skills and career as a web developer. One of the technologies senior developers recommend that all developers learn is Kubernetes.
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open-source system that lets users manage, scale, and deploy containerized applications automatically.
It makes it much easier for developers to manage such containers across hosts and nodes and provides load-balancing facilities and capabilities as well as crucial self-healing capabilities crucial for keeping servers, hosts, services, and applications healthy.
Learning Kubernetes Can Help Developers Understand Modern Deployment Practices
In the past, developers had to upload their websites to servers through FTP or SSH. The problem with this approach is that they did not have granular control of the underlying technology running their application or software. The process was also cumbersome and prone to errors.
Kubernetes has changed how websites are deployed in the modern age by introducing containerized deployments. This means developers can build their applications into images or containers that they can deploy on a server without having to think about the details of how the server will unravel everything to ensure their application runs as intended.
With modern companies and development studios switching to microservice-based software and application architectures, understanding modern deployment methods, including containerized solutions, can be an invaluable skill.
It Helps developers Understand How to Scale Their Applications
Deploying an application that serves only a few thousand or hundreds of thousands of people is different from deploying one that serves millions. The latter has to scale as the number of users increases, and this is something Kubernetes is great at.
In addition to using their
Kubernetes Enhances a Developer’s Troubleshooting Skills
Modern applications are complex pieces of code. They typically have several components working together, and it is a developer’s job to ensure they continue doing so smoothly. Kubernetes provides several functionalities and tools that help with troubleshooting problematic…