Learning application deployment strategies

Organizations without the expertise to design an application deployment strategy before getting their services to production users can face great operational complexity when managing their application life cycle. Many users still face container and microservices adoption issues later in their digital transformation journey and end up going back to the more expensive Database as a Service (DbaaS) model or even using traditional deployment methods in VMs. To avoid common mistakes and production anti-patterns, we need to be aware of some of the common strategies that will ensure our success in deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes.

We learned about the differences between different Kubernetes controllers such as Deployments, ReplicaSets, and StatefulSets in the Deploying stateful applications section in Chapter 7, Managing Storage and Stateful Applications.

In this section, we will learn about the following containerized application...