Deploying an Application to Kubernetes

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/devopswithbrad/kubernetes-class.git

Start with a Fresh Minikube cluster

Remember your minikube commands. Here is how to delete the cluster and start a fresh one. Remember docker needs to be running before minikube will work.

minikube delete
minikube start

Resources

Tools to install:

Must have these:

• minikube (simulates Kubernetes in a docker container)https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/
• kubectl (Used for sending commands to kubernetes clusters): https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/

Optional extras (I will show these off but you don't need them):

• kubectx/kubens - for managing contexts to multiple clusters https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectx
• A powerful CLI tool for managing kubernetes https://k9scli.io/
• OpenLens - A GUI tool https://github.com/MuhammedKalkan/OpenLens

Official Documentation

https://kubernetes.io/docs/home/

Kubernetes Documentary

Want to watch a Kubernetes Documentary? Check out these videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318elIq37PE

Google SRE Book on SRE

Free book from Google. Talks about the need for a self-healing system.

https://sre.google/sre-book/production-environment/