What are some of Kubernetes features?

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Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

Self-Healing: Kubernetes uses health checks to monitor containers and run certain actions upon failure or other type of events, like restarting the container
- Load Balancing: Kubernetes can split and/or balance requests to applications running in the cluster, based on the state of the Pods running the application
- Operators: Kubernetes packaged applications that can use the API of the cluster to update its state and trigger actions based on events and application state changes
- Automated Rollout: Gradual updates roll out to applications and support in roll back in case anything goes wrong
- Scaling: Scaling horizontally (down and up) based on different state parameters and custom defined criteria
- Secrets: you have a mechanism for storing user names, passwords and service endpoints in a private way, where not everyone using the cluster are able to view it