We love building backend applications. But have we ever thought of building it cloud-natively? Did we ever keep in mind the deployment process and the underlying infra that would eventually be running our app ?

In this blog, we build a golang backend music rest api and deploy it on Kubernetes. We use a lot of k8s constructs like Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PersistentVolumeClaims, PersistentVolumes, port-forwarding etc - all in one - for deploying our backend app. Memes included for fun!

Back in college, I wrote a lot of microservices but they all had a major drawback. Most of those systems never saw the light of the day since I never took the initiaive to deploy them properly. Well, I had used Heroku, Netlify and what not but all those abstractions never gave me proper control over my applications. Also, as the owner of my application, I need visibility and control over the network traffic between my microservices. In other words, I need to deploy my application in a cloud-native way. I need Kubernetes !

Find the enclosed blog here on Medium.

The Github code for the backend api, along with manifests is enclosed here.