A beginner-friendly walkthrough for running a Spring Boot application on Kubernetes. Covers building a Docker image with the Jib Maven plugin, setting up a local cluster with Minikube, and working with the three core Kubernetes objects: Pods, Deployments, and Services. Includes YAML manifests for each object, kubectl commands
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1. Creating a docker image from a SpringBoot application2. Understanding the Need for Kubernetes3. Local kubernetes setup using Minikube4. Overview of Kubernetes Objects5. Run the SpringBoot app in a Pod6. Scaling the application using Deployment7. Exposing the Deployment as a ServiceTipsSummarySort: