Preamble

Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting with container technology, which has inevitably lead to orchestration facilitated by the likes of Kubernetes (or K8s). After gaining (some) confidence with these technologies I decided to blog a end-to-end journey from taking a simple web based application currently residing within a virtual machine, and transforming it into a microservices based, container-backed application. To do this I fired up my lab