Building a working Kubernetes (k8s) reference implementations

I have been working with Kubernetes (k8s) off and on for about 2 years.   That being said, it's always been pretty topical and targeted to work that is going on.   Inevitably, I end up answering a bunch of the same questions over and over and building one-off samples.   Not very good of me if a say so myself 😳.

So, I figured I would take a step back and build a functioning application iteratively that uses most of the technology that I use on a daily basis.  However, I am approaching it as if I was going on the journey from scratch.   That way, if you follow it start to finish it should answer a lot of questions.

Part I -  Hello World

1. A simple Hello World application using SpringBoot
2. Dockerize said application using Maven

Part II - Basic Kube on AWS

1. Install and configure k8s on AWS using kops
2. Install and configure Jenkins on k8s
3. CI/CD of Part I using Jenkins on Kube

Part III - Deployments

1. Create a deployment with multiple services
• REST Service
• Local Cache (GemFire)
2. Create a deployment of a backing database that #1 uses

Part IV - ConfigMaps (may move this up)

Part V - Ingress Routing

We shall see what else I want or need to tackle as this goes forward.