It is safe to say that the Microservice + Cloud combination is all the rage these days. Microservices are being developed more than ever, in turn increasing the number of application deployments. During the past decade, containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes were developed, making the microservice pattern easy to adopt.
This article will teach you how to generate a completely functional microservice with an exposed REST API capable of interacting with a MySQL database and deploy it to your local Kubernetes cluster. The learnings here can be applied to almost any database type like Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and so on.