Kubernetes Container Runtime Concepts: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
* [[Kubernetes Concepts#Container_Runtime|Kubernetes Concepts]] | * [[Kubernetes Concepts#Container_Runtime|Kubernetes Concepts]] | ||
* [[Docker Concepts]] | |||
=Container Runtime= | =Container Runtime= | ||
Revision as of 01:32, 19 August 2019
External
Internal
Container Runtime
Each Kubernetes node runs a container runtime, usually Docker. However, support for other container runtimes is available, via Container Runtime Interface (CRI).
Docker
Kubernetes and Docker are complementary technologies. Docker is the technology that starts and stops containers under Kubernetes' supervision. Kubernetes is the higher-level technology that decides which nodes to run containers on, when to scale an application up or down or when to apply updates.