Technical requirements

This chapter does not have any technical requirements. If you would like to play around with Kubernetes, then here are some projects you could give a try. Minikube is a project that installs a one-node cluster on your local machine. Another project is Kubernetes in Docker (KinD), which starts a set of containers that will start Kubernetes. While these options can give you a good impression of what Kubernetes is and how it works, if you want to do some serious investigations, you might want to consider a cloud provider option. There are many offerings, such as AKS from Azure, GKE from Google, and EKS from Amazon. An interesting alternative is K3S from Civo, which uses cheap hardware to run Kubernetes.

We will perform a simple deployment to Kubernetes via a locally installed Minikube at the end of this chapter.

By the end of this chapter, you should have a good understanding of the position of Kubernetes within a cloud-native landscape. You will also have...