When a web application is deployed on KUbernetes, to access the application, there must be some set up needs to be done so that external users can access the resource within the Kubernetes clusters. IN this post, we will walk through different ways to access application from outside.Before exploring different ways, let's set up a simple nginx eb application which will just serve the nginx welcome message when loading.# deployment.yamlapiVersion: apps/v1kind: Deploymentmetadata: name: nginx-deploymentspec: selector: matchLabels: app: nginx replicas: 2 # tells deployment to run 2 pods...

As the list of *-as-a-service’s continues to grow, I thought I’d throw one into the mix. What about the idea of a backend-as-a-service (BaaS)?The recent surge of client side Javascript frameworks along with the attractiveness of simple RESTful APIs has created an environment where server-side interaction can be reduced to simply database interaction (including validation and some computation). But why stop there?What if the server-side of the equation was simply a RESTful, schema-less API? It could utilize MongoDB or some other document-oriented storage to avoid a strict schema d...