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Discussion on: Explain Like I'm 5: What is Container and Container Orchestrator?

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Prashant Pandey

Containers are like small boxes, and each box has an application inside it. Containers are different than virtual machines because they don't use a full operating system. Containers need less space and don't take longer to start up.

Container orchestration is the process of managing and maintaining applications that are containerized. Orchestration tools automate a number of tasks related to containers. Some examples of managed container orchestration platforms include Azure AKS, Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Red Hat OpenShift, Platform9 and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.