Deploying via Kubernetes

In this section, we are going to illustrate how to set up deployments for our microservices using a popular open source deployment and orchestration platform, Kubernetes. You will learn the basics of Kubernetes, how to set up our microservices for using it, and how to test our microservice deployments in Kubernetes.

Introduction to Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source deployment and orchestration platform that was initially created at Google and later maintained by a large developer community backed by the Linux Foundation. Kubernetes provides a powerful, scalable, and flexible solution for running and deploying applications of any size, from small single-instance applications to ones having tens of thousands of instances. Kubernetes helps to orchestrate multiple operations, such as deployments, rollbacks, up- and down-scaling of applications (changing the application instance count upward and downward), and many more.

In Kubernetes, each application...