For many, Kubernetes is a big hurdle to get over. In actuality, it's just a platform for running applications with many built-in features, and is no less complicated than running applications on any other platform. There is a lot that happens up to the point where your code hits the node, and even after that one has to be weary that defaults usually aren't the best approach.

In this session, we start with an empty git repository, build a shiny new application, squeeze it into a container which we then ship to a Kubernetes cluster, and in the end expose it to the world. Think of this as a development cycle speed run.

This talk aims to go through the process of developing an application for Kubernetes. We start by writing our application, we run tests and package it into a container, and then go through all the caveats of running our application with Kubernetes. This is mostly a hands-on presentation, with few slides.

The app is developed in a programming language that fits the conference, or Golang by default.