Kubernetes Container Runtime Concepts: Difference between revisions

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* [[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.