Container management is the processes, software, and tools used to create, deploy, monitor, and manage containers along their life cycle—much of which is abstracted away and handled by container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. Within container management is container orchestration, which includes the process and tools used to manage a fleet of containers, including how they interoperate and communicate with one another on a broader scale.
Container orchestration has become largely automated to streamline the work required to spin them up and down, which can be considerable when they begin to multiply in an organization. Container orchestration can also provide some standardization, security, and governance that benefit large enterprise organizations implementing container strategies.