Orkestrasi kontena mengautomasikan penempatan (deployment), penskalaan, rangkaian, dan pengurusan kontena merentas banyak mesin. Apabila aplikasi berkembang kepada banyak kontena merentas pelbagai hos, pengurusan manual menjadi tidak praktikal — orkestrator seperti Kubernetes mengendalikannya. Memahami keperluan ini penting untuk menskalakan aplikasi berasaskan kontena.
Masalahnya: mengurus kontena pada skala besar
Running a few containers on one host is manageable. But in production at scale:
→ MANY containers across MANY hosts (dozens/hundreds of services and instances)
→ containers crash → need to restart automatically
→ load increases → need to scale up (more instances) / scale down
→ deployments → roll out new versions without downtime; roll back on failure
→ distribute containers across hosts; route traffic; service discovery
→ Doing all this MANUALLY is impractical and error-prone. → ORCHESTRATION automates it.
