Why

Manually have to address stuff like excess traffic meant monitoring the traffic and then having to spin up more machines to handle the load. Very problematic for a 24/7 watchman

Key Concepts

• A pod is the smallest unit in Kubernetes. It’s often just a container.
• Nodes are where pods run.
• Cluster is a group of nodes.
• Control plane is scoped to a cluster and monitors the system and makes decisions.
• Service exposes the application to the Internet.