6 Creating your production environment

This chapter covers

  • Building production infrastructure for your application
  • Working with Terraform to script the creation of infrastructure
  • Creating a Kubernetes cluster to host microservices
  • Interacting with your Kubernetes cluster

Finally, we arrive at the most exciting chapters of the book! The next two chapters are also probably the hardest so far, but do follow along with the examples. That’s how you’ll learn the most and gain real experience bringing your own application to production.

In this chapter and the next, we will create a Kubernetes cluster and deploy containers to it: a MongoDB database, a RabbitMQ server, and of course, our video streaming microservice. In the next chapter, we’ll also ...

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