Modern distributed applications and services usually consist of multiple containerized components across multiple tiers. To orchestrate these sets of containers, Kubernetes has emerged as the de-facto standard for deploying and managing these containerized applications. While Kubernetes provides many features to make deployment and management of container infrastructures a lot easier, it focuses less on the applications themselves, leaving the challenge of treating applications as an

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... ent unit. Therefore, multiple tools and approaches exist that are trying to solve this challenge. This paper aims at collecting and comparing those different tools and approaches by defining desired features and comparing them using the previously defined requirements.