Scaling and Lifecycle Management

Overview

In Stage 1 you successfully:

• Built and published an image
• Created a Deployment
• Exposed the application using a Service

In this stage you will improve availability and manage application updates using Kubernetes controllers.

Scenario

The application is now receiving increased traffic.

Management wants:

• Higher availability
• Better scalability
• Safer application updates

Your task is to prepare the application for production workloads.

Part 1 – Scale the Application

Research how to increase the number of running application instances.

Tasks

Update the Deployment so that multiple application replicas are running.