We began this book with a brief history of Kubernetes (K8s), how it all started, and how we got here. We introduced Figure 11-1 to illustrate the relationship between Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and the K8s orchestrator. Since then, we have concentrated all our energy on EKS, its architecture, components, security, and functionalities. It is now time to shift our attention to K8s and explore its core strength which is running containerized applications. K8s excels at orchestrating, scaling, and managing containers, providing a robust platform for deploying modern, cloud-native applications efficiently.