2 Cloud-native application challenges

This chapter covers

  • Working with a cloud-native application running in a Kubernetes cluster
  • Choosing between local and remote Kubernetes clusters
  • Understanding the main components and Kubernetes resources
  • Understanding the challenges of working with cloud-native applications

When I want to try something new, a framework, a new tool, or just a new application, I tend to be impatient; I want to see it running immediately. Then, when it is running, I want to dig deeper and understand how it works. I break things to experiment and validate that I understand how these tools, frameworks, or applications work internally. That is the sort of approach we’ll take in this chapter!

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