Helm

Now that I have a Kubernetes cluster handy, I wanted to get my hands dirty by deploying my first application on it. What else is better than running an application I wrote myself to learn something to double up on the investment? If you want to read up on Short{Paste} , the application I wrote, you may read my blog post on it. App deployment I started by switching from Global to the Local cluster’s Default namespace/project. From the Workload tab, clicking on Deploy takes me to the deploy workload page. Here, I start by naming the workload as shortpaste and selecting the docker image adyanth/shortpaste. I leave the port mapping empty for now since I plan to add a layer 7 Ingress rather than a layer 4 NodePort or a Layer 4 load balancer. Under environment variables, I add what my app expects. Finally, for now, I let the scale default to 1 and hit Launch. ...

While my NUC homelab handled what I considered “production” workloads using docker and compose, I wanted to play around with and learn Kubernetes. I understood most of the bird’s eye view concepts like pods, deployments, and ingress, but without much hands-on, most of it was fleeting. So I decided to put my spare RAM and CPU on my desktop to good use by installing a complete K3s cluster. A good part of my research was provided concisely on an excellent guide by Tom . ...