What if we don't start from Pods, Deployments, and Service, and instead take a step back and look at how things were done in the past, with good old VMs? Can it help us understand Kubernetes faster and deeper?

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Ivan Velichko

This comprehensive guide compares traditional VM-based application deployment with Kubernetes, demonstrating how to evolve from running a single Python web app instance to a scalable, highly available service. It covers essential concepts like reverse proxies, load balancing, replication, and failure recovery using both traditional infrastructure and Kubernetes primitives (Pods, Deployments, Services). The tutorial includes practical examples showing how Kubernetes automates many manual deployment tasks while following the same underlying patterns used in traditional infrastructure.

Kubernetes Basics: Understanding Pods, Deployments, and Services

Part 1: Self-hosting a simple python web app