An international media provider is an early adopter of Docker and micro services and is using an open-source homegrown container orchestration system. A few years ago. they migrated from on-premises…

Kubernetes is purpose-built for container orchestration and maintains desired state through its control plane - if a container or node fails, it automatically reschedules and restores the defined state. It natively supports service discovery, load balancing, rolling updates, and scaling, making it a direct replacement for homegrown orchestration systems managing Docker-based microservices.

Puppet is a configuration management tool for managing server state and software installations, not a container orchestration platform.

Ansible is an agentless automation and configuration management tool, not designed to orchestrate or maintain the runtime state of containerized services.

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool used to provision cloud infrastructure resources, not to orchestrate or manage the lifecycle of running containers.