Local testing with Kubernetes

One of the hallmarks of Kubernetes is that the same cluster can run anywhere. For real-world systems, it's not always trivial if you use services that are not available locally or are prohibitively slow or expensive to access locally. The trick is to find a good spot between high fidelity and convenience.

Let's write a smoke test that takes Delinkcious through the primary workflow of getting links, adding links, and checking their status.

Writing a smoke test

The Delinkcious smoke test is not an automated one. It can be, but it will require special setup to make it work in the CI/CD environment. For real-world production systems, I highly recommend that you have an automated smoke test...