Kubernetes coordinates containerised applications across a cluster. Declarative resources describe the desired workload, with scheduling, service networking and recovery controls. Teams can operate the upstream software or use a managed distribution. The platform is a foundation for application operations rather than a complete build, database and monitoring service bundled into one product.
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Visit Kubernetes ↗Platform teams standardising container operations across services and environments
Explore the required features and plan before choosing.Swarm mode is the clustering capability built into Docker Engine. It manages services and replicas across manager and worker nodes using Docker commands, with overlay networking and rolling updates. This profile covers current Engine Swarm mode, rather than the discontinued Classic Swarm project. It suits a team evaluating a direct Docker service deployment model.
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Vendor-described capabilities; availability can depend on the plan.
Budget for cluster infrastructure, storage, networking, monitoring and platform labour; a managed control plane can have its own provider charge.
Upstream Kubernetes is Apache-2.0 software without a software subscription fee. Managed services, compute and commercial support are separate.
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Upstream Kubernetes is Apache-2.0 software without a software subscription fee. Managed services, compute and commercial support are separate.
Platform teams standardising container operations across services and environments
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