A sharp walkthrough for JVM devs shipping a Kotlin Spring Boot app on Kubernetes. It covers the full deployment arc, packaging with Docker, wiring up Deployment and Service manifests, and managing config with ConfigMaps and Secrets.
There's a clean PostgreSQL integration baked in. It even gets into header-based canary releases using Ingress and NGINX, because blind routing is so last cluster. Health checks? Covered, with Spring Boot Actuator endpoints doing the pulse-checking.
