- can automatically scale, deploy, and manage many many [[Containers|Containerized]] applications - common use cases: - large [[Containers|Containerized]] applications made of thousands of different [[Microservices]] - multiple instances of an app across multiple geographical regions - uses declarative (non-imperative) programming https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/container-orchestration/ https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-is-container-orchestration https://dev.to/ezinne_anne/containers-what-is-containerization-and-container-orchestration-38pe