Running a few containers by hand works for one host, but production applications need many containers across many machines, restarted when they fail, scaled with demand and updated without downtime. Container orchestration automates this, and Kubernetes (often written K8s) is the dominant orchestrator. Linux+ tests the core concepts rather than deep cluster administration: what each object does, how they relate, and which one you change to get a result.
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