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

Eric Anicet
8 min readApr 29, 2024

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

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