Learn Docker - Fundamentals of Docker 19.x - Second Edition

Deploying our application to the Kubernetes cluster

To deploy the application, we can use the kubectl apply command:

bash-5.0# kubectl apply -f animals.yaml 

The output of the preceding command should look similar to this:

deployment.apps/web createdservice/web createddeployment.apps/db createdservice/db created

Now, we want to test the application. Remember that we had created a service of type LoadBalancer for the web component. This service exposes the application to the internet. This process can take a moment, as AKS, among other tasks, needs to assign a public IP address to this service. We can observe this with the following command:

bash-5.0# kubectl get service web --watch

Please note the --watch parameter in the preceding command. ...