Let's face it—Kubernetes application development is not simple. In the previous chapters, we have been mainly focusing on the cluster provisioning and operations side of Kubernetes, which has its own complexities. As a software developer working with Kubernetes on Windows, you will have quite different challenges. In fact, you may need to switch your design approach to cloud-first, cloud-native, Kubernetes-first, or another modern approach. You have seen that Kubernetes is good at handling Windows applications that were never meant to be hosted in a container at design time, but to fully use the power of Kubernetes, you have to reverse this dependency and start thinking about Kubernetes as the center of the design and your development environment.
In this chapter, we will demonstrate a few popular tools that you can use in your...