July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
9h 38m
English
Content preview from Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition
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Getting ready
In this recipe, we will see how we can leverage Kubernetes to automate the deployment and scaling of our application container, which we created in the previous recipe.
Kubernetes is packaged along with the newer versions of the Docker Desktop installation, but right now it is only available on Mac. You can always install another distributions of Kubernetes if you wish. Refer to https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/ for more details. Minikube is a standard distribution that's provided by Kubernetes itself. It's quite popular and good for getting started. For this recipe, I will use Minikube, which will allow a single node Kubernetes cluster to be run inside a VM on our local machine.
To install Minikube, follow the instructions ...