Cloud native application challenges: installing the walking skeleton

A Manning excerpt shows how to deploy a sample cloud-native app on Kubernetes using core YAML resources like Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, and secrets.

It uses a walking skeleton and kubectl to illustrate the basic building blocks of a Kubernetes application.

The piece argues that managing raw manifests by hand becomes unwieldy as systems grow, especially for microservices and multiple environments.

To address that, it introduces templating engines and package managers as higher-level tools for packaging and installing Kubernetes applications.