13 Final notes: Container-native Vert.x

This chapter covers

  • Efficiently building container images with Jib
  • Configuring Vert.x clustering to work in a Kubernetes cluster
  • Deploying Vert.x services to a Kubernetes cluster
  • Using Skaffold and Minikube for local development
  • Exposing health checks and metrics

By now you should have a solid understanding of what a reactive application is, and how Vert.x can help you build scalable, resource-efficient, and resilient services. In this chapter we’ll discuss some of the main concerns related to deploying and operating a Vert.x application in a Kubernetes cluster container environment. You will learn how to prepare Vert.x services to work well in Kubernetes and how to use efficient tools to package container ...

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