Trying Kubernetes for the first time
For a long time, I’ve been concerned about deploying my containerized applications without downtime, ideally using Docker. While tools like Docker Swarm and various plugins offer solutions for this, I decided to explore something new (at least for me): Kubernetes. This post documents my journey into learning and using Kubernetes. Goal First I should make clear that the goal of this proof of concept is to run a simple NodeJS API application, and not to deploy a complete production environment using Kubernetes, as this might contain database, cache, queue and pub/sub services. ...