.NET Architecture & System Design Interview Question #184

What is container orchestration?

Deployment, Cloud Operations, SRE & Senior System Design Scenarios Senior Advanced

Quick Interview Answer

Container orchestration automates deployment, scheduling, scaling, networking, health management, and replacement of containerized workloads across a cluster.

Detailed Explanation

Container orchestration automates deployment, scheduling, scaling, networking, health management, and replacement of containerized workloads across a cluster.

Platforms such as Kubernetes provide these capabilities, but they introduce substantial operational concepts. A team should adopt orchestration when its deployment and scaling needs justify the additional platform complexity.

Code Example

Desired: 3 API instances

Orchestrator:
Node A -> API
Node B -> API
Node C -> API

Failed instance -> replace automatically