Explore Pods
Design, deploy, expose, and inspect a standalone NGINX Pod to learn how a Kanvas component becomes a running Kubernetes object.
Tag: Kubernetes
Explore Deployments
Build a replicated NGINX Deployment in Kanvas, scale it, roll it to a new image, and watch the ReplicaSets and Pods it manages in Operator.
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Explore Services
Expose a Deployment and two Pods with ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer Services in Kanvas and see what each Service type gives you in a live cluster.
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Use ConfigMaps and Secrets
Inject configuration from a ConfigMap and a credential from a Secret into a MySQL Pod, as environment variables and as mounted files, and verify each binding in the running container.
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Schedule Work with CronJobs
Design a CronJob, deploy it, watch the Jobs and Pods it creates on schedule, change the schedule and redeploy, and clean up.
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Deploy a PHP Guestbook with Redis
Combine six Kubernetes manifests into one Kanvas design, deploy a three-tier guestbook, and learn how Services wire tiers together by label and by name.
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Deploy WordPress and MySQL with Persistent Volumes
Build a stateful two-tier application in Kanvas with a Secret and PersistentVolumes, deploy it, and learn what persists, where, and what Undeploy leaves behind.
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Deploy Cassandra with a StatefulSet
Deploy a three-node Apache Cassandra ring from Kanvas and learn how a StatefulSet and a headless Service give each replica a stable name, a stable volume, and an ordered start.
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Kubernetes Request Flow
How a request travels from a client through Ingress or a Service to a Pod and its containers, why labels and selectors hold the path together, how the path maps to a Kanvas design, and how to debug it layer by layer.