Node Cookbook - Third Edition

How it works...

We achieved a lot in this recipe, and there are a lot of concepts to understand if we are new to Kubernetes. While a full description of Kubernetes is outside the scope of this book, the following diagram illustrates what our single service deployment looks like:

The structure is as follows:

• We have a Docker engine instance running on our host machine. We used this to build and tag our images.
• We pushed our Docker image to a public repository on DockerHub.
• Kubernetes (minikube) is running inside a VM on our local machine.
• Kubernetes pulled our adderservice image from our Docker repository.
• Kubernetes created a pod (for more ...