Acorn, a Lightweight, Portable PaaS for Kubernetes

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https://acorn.io, a new application deployment framework launched by the founders of Rancher, comes extremely close to what I expect from a development environment running on top of Kubernetes. It is open source, simple, lightweight, and a portable framework to deploy and scale microservices on Kubernetes.

Installing Acorn in a Kubernetes cluster creates a set of resources that handle applications’ build time and runtime requirements.

The controller is responsible for managing the lifecycle of an Acorn application by creating and terminating downstream Kubernetes resources.

Revisiting the idea of the ingress to expose the web application, let’s see if we can find an ingress resource within the application namespace.

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