Deploying your microservice on Kubernetes

So far in this chapter, we have successfully orchestrated a single node Kubernetes cluster using Docker, and we have familiarized ourselves with the Kubernetes dashboard. In this recipe, we will learn how to deploy our geolocation microservice on our Kubernetes cluster.

Getting ready

Deploying a microservice in Kubernetes can be done in several ways. We can use kubectl to submit our deployment to the Kubernetes cluster. We can also use the dashboard to create a deployment via the UI. In the previous recipe, we used kubectl to create a deployment for the echoserver container. In this recipe, let's use the dashboard to deploy the geolocation microservice in Kubernetes.

Go ahead and open up the Kubernetes dashboard ...

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