Finally understanding Kubernetes (part 1 of 4) « Oliver's Development Musings (opens in new tab)

So you’ve made it to 2026 and you understand Docker containers to be “kinda like a VM, but not really”, and Kubernetes is “kinda deploy docker containers, but not really”… and you’ve probably seen / had to use Kubernetes to some extent, but don’t really get it yet? And you’d like to? Then this post is for you. We’ll talk through the fundamentals right up to what you can probably expect to see in a typical engineering org, and you’ll run them yourself locally.