This article is designed to walk you through Docker and Kubernetes & provide a glimpse of some of the benefits of orchestrating them in Production.

we’re developing a starter NodeJS server and deploying it to a K8s cluster, then building the image from docker and deploying it to the Kubernetes cluster.

Scaling means adapting your infrastructure to new load conditions. If you have more load, you scale up to enable the environment to respond swiftly/on-time

Injecting configuration to containerized application is a crucial requirement there is applications that don't accept customization that alter its behavior

you sometimes require that no changes should be made to the application configuration once the application is deployed.

Kubernetes Patterns, environmental variables declaration and configuration pattern, which enables you to change variables without having to redeploy your app.

In Kubernetes, an init container is the one that starts and executes before other containers in the same Pod.

Reflection is a concept that is available in most programming languages. It refers to the ability of an object to reveal important information about itself

we use the Service Discovery pattern. To understand service discovery, let’s briefly visit the Service Discovery Architecture (SOA).