As you can see, the Minikube is an easy way to try out Kubernetes and use it for local development. Running the local cluster is not as scary as it may have seemed at the beginning. Best of all, the local minikube cluster is a valid Kubernetes cluster. If you get to know Kubernetes by playing with it locally, you will be able to deploy your applications in the real cloud without any issues. Let's summarize the steps that we need to perform to make our Java application run on the Kubernetes cluster.

First, we need to write some code for our microservice. This can be based on whatever you want, it can be a microservice running on Tomcat, JBoss, or Spring Bootstrap. It doesn't matter, you just choose the technology you want your software to run with:

• Next, put the code into Docker image. You can do it by hand by creating a Dockerfile or you can use Docker Maven...