Deploy Container Applications Using Kubernetes: Implementations with microk8s and AWS EKS

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S. SubramanianDeploy Container Applications Using Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9277-8_4

4. Building Our First Container Image

Shiva Subramanian¹  

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Georgia, GA, USA

 

In this chapter, we will learn how to build our own container. This is important because publicly available containers usually contain popular open source software such as nginx or apache2/httpd, while our enterprise software typically is closed source and/or proprietary. Thus, learning how to build our own container will help us package our enterprise software for deployment in the container paradigm.

This process is logically similar to how you’d build a binary from source ...