Why You Should Use Kubernetes and Docker Together

Why You Should Use Kubernetes and Docker Together? Kubernetes allows you to take advantage of your existing Docker workloads, run them at scale, and tackle real complexities.

A question I almost always seem to be running into is whether one should use Docker or Kubernetes. I think there is a small misconception out there that you have to be using one or the other. Why not use both? I mean, Kubernetes not only allows you to use your existing Docker containers and workloads, but it also enables you to tackle some of the complex issues you run into when moving to scale.

To better answer this question, we will start with a simple cloud-native application. Let’s assume that the front end of this application is written in React backed by Node.js and we are using Java for database access. For accessing external APIs, maybe we’ll use Python to allow us to serve rest endpoints.

The pure Docker approach to deploying this application will require taking the application and moving it to some server stack. This server stack is going to have the hardware, the OS (Ubuntu), and a Docker Daemon installed on top of that OS. This is what will allow us to spin up containers. Docker provides several great tools for working with our containerized applications.

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Our original Kubernetes tool list was so popular that we've curated another great list of tools to help you improve your functionality with the platform.

This article explains how you can leverage Kubernetes to reduce multi cloud complexities and improve stability, scalability, and velocity.

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Microsoft announced the general availability of Bridge to Kubernetes, formerly known as Local Process with Kubernetes.