K8 Node
A managed container-orchestration platform that schedules, scales, and heals containerised workloads across a pool of compute.
Description
All three major clouds offer managed Kubernetes (AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Azure AKS): they run and patch the control plane for you while you supply or autoscale the worker nodes. The differences are mostly operational — how much of the node pool is managed for you, how upgrades and autoscaling are configured, and how tightly the cluster integrates with that provider's IAM, networking, and load-balancing. GKE is often regarded as the most "batteries-included" given Kubernetes' origins at Google, but to the best of our knowledge all three are conformant Kubernetes and broadly portable. Self-managed Kubernetes on raw Compute is also possible, trading convenience for full control.
Capabilities
- Schedule containers across a node pool
- Auto-scale workloads and nodes
- Self-heal failed pods
- Service discovery and rolling deployments