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orchestration

noun

  1. study or practice of writing music for an orchestra
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From French orchestration. Equivalent to orchestrate + -ion.

  1. The arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
  2. A composition that has been orchestrated.
  3. The control of diverse elements.

    It’s “The Most Dangerous Game” by way of The Running Man and Battle Royale, with touches of Survivor and the mass-scale orchestration of The Truman Show.

  4. The automated arrangement, coordination, and management of computer systems, middleware, and services.

    Microservices applications can be formed with thousand of containers. We need a proper container orchestration framework to handle all of these containers. Let's discuss Kubernetes, which is the most popular container orchestration system, in the next section.