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Yarn

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Node.js

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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kubernetes-deploy

So now, we need a Deployment for our database. Technically speaking, you could also deploy a database using a StatefulSet. Still, I'm leaving that debate for another day (or you can also check this blog in case you are curious). So let's write the deployment file and ensure it uses the proper ConfigMap and Secret. If you remember, back from our docker-compose file, the DB section used a docker volume to write its data, so we need something similar here. We can achieve basic storage with Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims, but this is a very complicated topic that we'll expand on later in this article. Let's create the file db.yaml inside our k8s folder, with the following content:.

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Helm.sh

To take our journey one step further, we need the help of a very important tool in the K8s world: Helm. From their website: "Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application." Therefore, we need a "helm chart" to improve our deployment.

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Google Kubernetes Engine

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AWS Secrets Manager

Store the Secrets in a vault like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, etc., and then use an operator like External Secrets Operator to add them to your K8s cluster.

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