Architecture

Fabric8 provides a number of microservices and tools above the Kubernetes cloud.

• Docker provides the abstraction for packaging and creating Linux based lightweight containers
• Kubernetes provides the mechanism for orchestrating docker containers on multiple hosts (like a distributed systemd) together with networking them together
• Kubernetes extensions provides the packaging, templating and building mechanisms

Kubernetes model

• Pods
• Replication Controllers
• Services
• Environments
• Apps

Kubernetes extensions from OpenShift Origin v3

• OpenShift templates
• Builds