Kubernetes is more than orchestration, it's shifting power to app developers and owners

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Read any manual or article, and you will come to understand Kubernetes -- affectionately called K8s --  as "an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications." 

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It serves as an orchestration engine for all the containers arising across the application landscape, enabling them to run anywhere, anytime, without the need for heavy-handed IT support -- or any support at all.

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