task-1-run-frontend-pod

Task 1 - Run Frontend Pod

Create and access pod imperatively

We will run our first pod with

kubectl run my-frontend --image blog-frontend:0.1

To check that it is running we can do

kubectl get pods

We should see that it has STATUS Running

We can also check the logs of the running pod with

kubectl logs my-frontend

To temporarily expose the frontend on localhost we can run the following command

kubectl port-forward pod/my-frontend 8045:8045

and let it run. Then it is possible to access the frontend on http://localhost:8045

kubectl delete pod  my-frontend

Create and access pod declarative way

We can use the same command as in the first section, but append --dry-run=client and -o yaml to get a yaml template, which is what kubernetes uses as IaC.

In the following command we also pipe the output into a file:

kubectl run my-frontend --image blog-frontend:0.1 --dry-run=client -o yaml > frontend-pod.yaml

With the above command, the pod does not get scheduled to the cluster, and we need to apply the yaml definition to get the pod in the cluster with

kubectl apply -f frontend-pod.yaml

To check that it is running we can again do

kubectl get pods

We can delete the pod again with

kubectl delete -f frontend-pod.yaml

Check that there is no pod running with

kubectl get pods

and delete the frontend-pod.yaml

rm frontend-pod.yaml

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