Over the last few years, I’ve written and deployed many services to production using gRPC. These systems have run across different runtimes including Apache Mesos, Hashicorp Nomad, and Kubernetes. To help keep this talk focused, I will use Kubernetes for demonstration.

In this talk, I provide all the context one needs to get started. I’ll show how to deploy a service to Kubernetes. Then, I’ll set up liveness and readiness probes to ensure your service is only addressable once it’s healthy. I’ll walk through configuring several service addresses and discuss how they differ. Finally, I’ll deploy a client that uses the service addresses to perform a variety of workloads.

All code for this talk will be available on GitHub.