Cloud Native Spring in Action

Appendix B Kubernetes in production with DigitalOcean

This appendix covers

• Running a Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean
• Running a PostgreSQL database on DigitalOcean
• Running Redis on DigitalOcean
• Running RabbitMQ using a Kubernetes Operator
• Running Keycloak using a Helm chart

Kubernetes is the de facto standard for deploying and managing containerized workloads. We’ve been relying on a local Kubernetes cluster to deploy applications and services in the Polar Bookshop system throughout the book. For production, we need something else.

All major cloud providers offer a managed Kubernetes service. In this appendix, you’ll see how to use DigitalOcean to spin up a Kubernetes cluster. We’ll also rely on other managed services provided by the platform, ...