Container Orchestration - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Container orchestration automates deploying, scaling, networking, and healing of containers across a fleet of machines. Kubernetes, Nomad, and ECS are common orchestrators.
In CI/CD
Pipelines usually end by handing a new image to an orchestrator, which performs a rolling update. Self-hosted CI runners are themselves often run as orchestrated, ephemeral workloads.
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