Container Orchestration

Kubernetes is ideal for applications requiring high availability, auto-scaling, and multi-environment deployments. For simple applications, Docker Compose or managed container services may suffice. We assess your scalability needs, team expertise, and operational requirements to recommend the right solution.

Docker packages applications into containers, while Kubernetes orchestrates and manages multiple containers across clusters. Docker handles containerization, Kubernetes handles deployment, scaling, networking, and self-healing. They work together - Docker creates containers, Kubernetes runs them at scale.

We use rolling updates, blue-green deployments, or canary releases in Kubernetes. Health checks ensure new pods are ready before old ones terminate. Load balancers route traffic only to healthy instances. We also implement proper readiness and liveness probes for reliability.

A service mesh (like Istio or Linkerd) manages service-to-service communication, providing traffic management, security, and observability. It's beneficial for microservices architectures with complex inter-service communication. We recommend it for applications with 10+ microservices requiring advanced traffic control.