Exploring the BookInfo application in a Kubernetes environment

As a quick introduction, let's check the different semantics of this application from the perspective of Kubernetes.

To recap, we installed the BookInfo application in the istio-lab namespace. Let's get started:

  1. Run the following command to check the status of this application:
$ kubectl -n istio-lab get podsNAME                             READY  STATUS   RESTARTS  AGEdetails-v1-bc557b7fc-sfgcc       1/1    Running  0         90sproductpage-v1-6597cb5df9-j9wk5  1/1    Running  0         87sratings-v1-5c46fc6f85-vqwck      1/1    Running  0         90sreviews-v1-69dcdb544-966tw       1/1    Running  0         90sreviews-v2-65fbdc9f88-hvfbg      1/1    Running  0         89sreviews-v3-bd8855bdd-d2c7p       1/1    Running  0         88s

Notice that we have only one container running in each pod (1/1) and that ...

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