Kubernetes satisfies common needs for applcation in production 

1. Authentication and authorization 

2. Naming and discovery of services

3. Load Balancing 

4. Checking application health

5. Replicating application Instances

6. Horizontal Pod autoscaling

7. Rolling Updates

8. Mounting Storage

9. Secrets and ConfigMaps

10. Monitoring Resources

11. Accessing and Ingestion logs 

12. Debugging Applications