Lab1 (Spring Boot/K8S): Deploy Spring Boot application on Kubernetes

In this story, we’ll learn how to containerize and deploy a Spring Boot application to a Kubernetes cluster.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What is Kubernetes?
∘ Kubernetes Cluster Architecture
· Setting up the Kubernetes Cluster
· Create a Spring Boot Application
∘ Project structure
∘ Building Docker Images
· Deploy the Application to Kubernetes
∘ What is a Kubernetes Manifest file?
∘ Kubernetes Deployments and Service
∘ Create a Kubernetes Manifest file
∘ Deploy the container image to Kubernetes
∘ Endpoint testing
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• A Spring Boot project (with Java 17 and Maven 3.8.+)
• kubectl
• A Kubernetes cluster (We’ll use Minikube on our local machine for the first lab.)
• Docker installed