Deploying to Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration and management system originally developed by Google. Today, the Kubernetes project is maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/).

Kubernetes is a comprehensive and complex tool that provides the following features, among others:

• Service discovery and load balancing
• Storage orchestration
• Automated rollouts and rollbacks
• Automatic bin packing, specifying how much CPU and memory each container needs
• Self-healing
• Secret and configuration management

An oversimplified description of Kubernetes is that it is a tool used to manage containers.

This recipe will serve as an introduction to Kubernetes, demonstrating how we can deploy a microservice, packaged into a Docker container, to Kubernetes.

Getting ready

You should have Node.js 22 installed, and access to both an editor and browser of your choice. This recipe also relies on the fastify...