Kubernetes
Orchestrating containers so services scale and heal themselves
What It Is
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that manages how containerized services are deployed, scaled, and kept running restarting a failed container automatically, distributing traffic across healthy instances, and scaling a service up or down based on real load instead of a fixed instance count sized for an average day.
Why It Matters
Running containers manually works until it doesn't a server dies, traffic spikes, or a deploy needs to roll back cleanly, and each of those becomes a manual scramble without an orchestration layer. Kubernetes turns those into automated, predictable behaviors instead of 3am incidents.
How TieTech Uses It
Kubernetes is the orchestration layer behind our cloud infrastructure reference architecture services scaling independently behind a service mesh, with the whole environment defined as Terraform code so it's reproducible rather than hand-configured.
