Expose a Kubernetes service on your own custom domain

You have finally deployed your app to Kubernetes and you bought a cool domain name — ever wondered how to point your cool domain like www.mydomain.com, but cooler, to an application running inside Kubernetes? Well, read on and I’ll try to explain how to do just that!

Kubernetes master and worker nodes

A Kubernetes cluster is a set of physical or virtual machines and other infrastructure resources that are needed to run your containerized applications. Each machine in a Kubernetes cluster is called a node.

What is container orchestration?

Containers are everywhere these days. Tools such as Docker are used to package anything from applications to databases. With the growing popularity of microservice architecture and moving away from the monolithic applications, a monolith application is now a collection of multiple smaller services.

Zero-downtime Releases using Kubernetes and Istio

The idea behind zero-downtime release is to release a new version of the service, without affecting any users — i.e., users don’t even know when a new version of the service is released. A practical example would be if you have a website running, how can you release a new version without taking the site down?