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Chapter 2. Introduction to containers and 
orchestration with Kubernetes
This chapter presents the conceptual foundations of containers and the open source 
container orchestration Kubernetes. It also introduces the Red Hat Enterprise Kubernetes 
product that is called Red Hat OpenShift.
This chapter includes the following topics:
/SM5900002.1, “A new computing paradigm in cloud transformation” on page 8
/SM5900002.2, “Virtual machines meet containers” on page 12
/SM5900002.3, “Containers” on page 19
/SM5900002.4, “Kubernetes: An open source container orchestration” on page 24
/SM5900002.5, “Enterprise Kubernetes: Red Hat OpenShift” on page 31
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