Now that you have busted some jargon, you know that the sentence is saying:

“Kubernetes runs and manages applications that are made up of small, specialized parts that can self-heal, scale, and be updated independently, without requiring downtime.”

Those specialized parts are called microservices and each one is usually deployed in its own container.

Microservices

But that is still a lot to learn and you are not expected to fully understand everything yet.

Next, we looked into its background to figure out why Kubernetes is so much in demand.

Throughout the rest of the course, you will continue to learn about Kubernetes with the help of various examples that will really drive the points home.