6 The road to production

This chapter covers

  • Deploying a microservice to a Kubernetes cluster
  • Using a local Kubernetes instance for development, experimentation, and learning
  • Creating a managed Kubernetes cluster through the Azure portal UI

Finally, we arrive at the most exciting chapters of the book! The next three chapters cover the three tools we need to deploy our application to production. These three chapters will also be the most difficult so far, but just follow along with the examples to learn the most and gain real experience by bringing your own application to production.

Starting in this chapter, we’ll deploy our first microservice to Kubernetes. You’ll discover how easy it is to use a local Kubernetes instance to experiment and ...

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