is k8s a hypervisor ?
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well container-based, especially if we think about LXD as one and that coined the term Type-C hypervisors.
sadly I can't drag my thoughts like another person here and make it 1000 lines yet still meaningful, but you get the point, I think it is hypervisor...
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Is it at the most technical level? No. Is it in a practical sense? Yes.
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No, k8s is not a hypervisor.
K8s is like the conductor, conducting each member of the orchestra as one, where each member of the orchestra is a container. It's more than that, but to show how it's not a hypervisor I'll leave it at that.
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Here how it resembles:
It manages network level via "plugins"
nodes can join in (like hyper converged)
it can run apps on nodes and scale them
there is an option to store data and be stateful thus managing storageYou know a new breed of hypervisors ... container level
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@Emad-R said in is k8s a hypervisor ?:
Here how it resembles:
It manages network level via "plugins"
nodes can join in (like hyper converged)
it can run apps on nodes and scale them
there is an option to store data and be stateful thus managing storageYou know a new breed of hypervisors ... container level
No, nothing about K8s fits the definition of hypervisor.
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@Obsolesce said in is k8s a hypervisor ?:
No, k8s is not a hypervisor.
K8s is like the conductor, conducting each member of the orchestra as one, where each member of the orchestra is a container. It's more than that, but to show how it's not a hypervisor I'll leave it at that.
Right, I assumed he meant Docker, not K8S itself.
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That's like calling vCenter a hypervisor
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@flaxking said in is k8s a hypervisor ?:
That's like calling vCenter a hypervisor
Right. It's a controller for a hypervisor, but just a management layer.
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Kubernetes is 3 things:
- a container orchestrator (vsphere for containers)
- a container config manamement (ansible for container infrastructure)
- a version control system with rollback capabilities (by default stores the last 10 configs for a deployment)
