Kubernetes Setup

Kubernetes is a flexible system that can be installed on various platforms from Raspberry Pi to high-end servers in data centers. Each platform comes with its advantages and disadvantages in terms of service quality, monitoring, security, and operations. Kubernetes manages applications as containers and creates an abstraction layer on the infrastructure. Let's imagine that you set up Kubernetes on the three old servers in your basement and then install the Proof of Concept (PoC) of your new project. When the project becomes successful, you want to scale your application and move to a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since your application is designed to run on Kubernetes and does not depend on the infrastructure, porting to another Kubernetes installation is straightforward.

In the previous chapter, we studied the development environment setup using minikube, the official method of Kubernetes. In this section, production-level Kubernetes platforms...