🚀 Kubernetes for Beginners: Deploying an Nginx–Node–Redis Application

Understanding Services, ConfigMaps, Deployments, and health checks with my WAY! Hola Amigos! 👋 Today, we are embarking on a brand new series: K8s with Pravesh 🚀 — where we’ll break down Kubernetes, understand what it really is, and more importantly, how you can actually use it in a practical, no-BS way. In today’s blog, we’ll dive into the fundamentals — Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps — and use them to deploy a three-tier application on Minikube. Now you might be thinking… “What’s new here? There are already thousands of blogs doing the same thing.” And honestly, you’re not wrong. But hold your horses for a second 🐎 This isn’t just another “apply this YAML and it works” kind of tutorial. We’re going to: Understand what’s really happening under the hood Debug real issues (yes, the ones that actually happen) And build intuition so you don’t just run Kubernetes… you get it So let’s dive in. 🔥 🛠️ Pre-Requisites Before we dive deep, there are a couple of things you need to have