Why You Need Kubernetes to Leeway IoT Apps
Today most of the enterprises are facing the challenge in the cloud to solve the existing investment reconcile with their future strategies. Therefore companies are looking for deep support for cloud-native applications, such as IoT apps, web-scale consumer apps, and next-generation mobile applications.
To deal with this problem, Google has introduced an open-source container based system Kubernetes for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of complex applications.
The main objective of this system is to provide a "robust platform for mobile application containers across clusters of hosts." It works with a variety of container tools, including rkt, Docker, Microsoft containers, etc.
What Is Kubernetes?
The Kubernetes is an extendable open-source platform for steering containerized services that offers both automation and declarative configuration. It has a large ecosystem and its services are widely available.
The demand for Kubernetes platform has rapidly increased to run new-fangled and micro services-based applications. From shared VPC to auto-scaling mechanisms it supports modern capabilities.
Why do you need it?
It offers a container-centric mainframe environment for computing, networking, and storage on the basis of user workloads. Kubernetes also offers a simple platform as a Service (PaaS) with the flexible infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and enables portability across infrastructure providers. It has a number of features such as:
- A container platform
- A micro services platform
- A portable cloud platform and a lot more.
How It Leeway IoT Apps
We often need to simulate devices, sensors, and vehicles?to test IoT software so they can deal with errors and manage load effectively. Each connected devices behave like an independent entity with their own context i.e. battery level, steady memory, upload frequency, etc. and managing all these settings can be very challenging.
To overcome this challenge Kubernetes plays an important role. It provides a platform that can manage the credentials of various simulated devices and scale up/down according to the need.
It also simplifies the deployment complexity related data transfer and increased ease and efficiency of IoT Development Services with the help of master-slave architecture.
Benefits of Kubernetes platform?
The Kubernetes offers a huge variety of new functions and its app-specific workflow can be used to increase the velocity of developers. IoT Application Development Services require robust automation at scale, this is the reason Kubernetes designed to serve the ecosystem of components and tools to make it easier to deploy, scale, and manage applications.
It empowers IoT to organized resources and to manage customer information to facilitate their system and provide a handy way to manage tools checkpoint state. Additionally, the Kubernetes control plane such as the Kubernetes Master and kubelet processes, allow users to write their individual controllers, such as schedulers, with individual APIs that can be intended by a "general-purpose command-line tool".
For example, if the mobile app developer uses the Kubernetes API to create a Deployment object, they provide a new desired state for the system and the control plane of Kubernetes records object creation, and carries out their commands by initiating the required IoT software and scheduling them to cluster nodes–thus making the cluster’s actual state match the desired state.
What Does All This Mean for IoT?
It's quite challenging to manage all the different channels of communication simultaneously for an IoT integrated app but with the help of Kubernetes, it will become a more feasible endeavor to handle cloud platform efficiently.