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Managing containers manually is not feasible for production applications due to:

• Scaling: How to automatically add more container instances when traffic increases and remove them when it decreases? ‍
• Networking: How do containers find and communicate with each other in a dynamic environment where they are constantly starting and stopping? ‍
• Self-Healing: What happens if a container or the underlying machine fails? How is it restarted automatically? ‍
• Rolling Updates: How to update an application to a new version with zero downtime? ‍
• Resource Optimization: How to efficiently pack containers onto servers to maximize resource usage and minimize costs?

Container orchestration provides the answers to all these questions through automation.