Getting Started with Ruby on Rails and Kubernetes
Why should we deploy our Rails applications to Kubernetes? Traditionally we’ve deployed our applications to the cloud using services like Heroku or on virtual private servers on Amazon EC2, Rackspace, or Digital Ocean using a custom set of Ansible scripts to automate the process. This has worked well an still continues to work well, however we run into issues with scaling our servers to meet users demands and upgrading hardware and software isn’t always easy without downtime.