I started my career as a C++ developer. At the time, it was more or less considered the ‘default’ choice for software development. PERL was the new kid on the block for web application development. Python was just a scripting language pretending to be object-orientated and with a quirky way to delimit code blocks using indentation. JavaScript was brand spanking new, uncool, but the idea of running code in a browser was at least somewhat interesting.

Introduction This is (hopefully) the first in a series of posts detailing my adventures with Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes. My focus will be mostly on architecting, developing, monitoring, and maintaining microservices on Kubernetes and not so much on the administration or InfraOps challenges of maintaining a Kubernetes cluster. You shouldn’t be maintaining your own production Kubernetes cluster anyway - OpenShift is a great option for an on-premise cluster, and AWS, Google and Azure, along with many others, have great public cloud Kubernetes-based container platforms available.