K9s is CLI application that is designed to interact with Kubernetes clusters. The project is opensource (github: https://github.com/derailed/k9s) and it’s aim is to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage application deployed in Kubernetes.

The first thing we need talk about is service mesh. A service basically is the microservices that makes up an application. A modern cloud native application will contain a number of containers that handle functionality for a different part of an application. For example, a book selling website might have product page, reviews, book information details, rating etc. Each part of the application will typically be in it’s own container and will need to interact with other containers that make…

Minishift is a tool that helps you run OpenShift locally by running a single-node OpenShift cluster inside a VM. You can try out OpenShift or develop with it, day-to-day, on your local host.