Kubernetes vs Docker: When to Use Each

Understand how Docker and Kubernetes differ, how they work together, and make a confident decision about when to add Kubernetes to your stack

3 sections ยท 9 lessons

Course outline

Docker: Containerization Fundamentals

  1. What Docker actually does
  2. Docker Compose for local development
  3. Docker Swarm: built-in orchestration

Kubernetes: Orchestration at Scale

  1. How Kubernetes works
  2. Self-healing and auto-scaling
  3. Advanced deployments and multi-team isolation

Decision Framework

  1. The dockershim story: Docker and K8s aren't rivals
  2. When Docker Compose is enough
  3. When to add Kubernetes

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