Now that we have a basic application up and running, let's look at creating something more complex. Fission ships with a demo application that acts as a guestbook. You can find the files we are going to be deploying in the /Chapter08/guestbook/ folder in the GitHub repository that accompanies this book.
The first step in launching the application is to launch a Redis deployment; this will be used to store the comments being written to the guestbook. To create the deployment, run the following command from within the /Chapter08/guestbook/ folder:
$ kubectl create -f redis.yaml
You can see from the following screenshot this has created a namespace, deployment, and service.
Now we need to create an environment to launch our functions ...