❯ Guillaume Laforge

Deploy a Micronaut application containerized with JIB to Google Kubernetes Engine

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A few weeks ago, I had the chance to be at Devoxx Belgium once again, to meet developers and learn about new things from awesome speakers. Google Cloud Platform had its own booth on the exhibition floor, and the team was running codelabs: 10 laptops were at the disposal of attendees to go through various hands-on tutorials on several GCP products. I took a chance at crafting my own codelab: deploying a Micronaut application, containerized with Jib, to Google Kubernetes Engine.

For the impatient, follow this link: g.co/codelabs/micronaut

Note: If you haven’t got a GCP account already, know that there’s a free trial with $300 of cloud credits to get started.

More information on the tools used:

  • Micronaut is a modern, JVM-based, full-stack framework for building modular, easily testable microservice and serverless applications. Micronaut aims to deliver great startup time, fast throughput, with a minimal memory footprint. Developers can develop with Micronaut in Java, Groovy or Kotlin.

  • Jib is an open source tool that lets you build Docker and OCI images for your Java applications. It is available as plugins for Maven and Gradle, and as a Java library.

  • Kubernetes is an open source project which can run in many different environments, from laptops to high-availability multi-node clusters, from public clouds to on-premise deployments, from virtual machines to bare metal.

  • Google Kubernetes Engine is Google Cloud Platform’s hosted Kubernetes platform.

In this codelab, you deploy a simple Groovy-based Micronaut microservice to Kubernetes running on Kubernetes Engine.

The goal of this codelab is for you to run your microservice as a replicated service running on Kubernetes. You take code that you have developed on your machine, turn it into a Docker container image built with Jib, and then run and scale that image on Kubernetes Engine.