Manifest Files: Empathy as Code

Kubernetes YAML files are excellent sources of documentation, and we can use them to get new team members up to speed quickly and help bridge the gap between developers and operations.

For example, new team members can read our YAML files and quickly learn our application’s basic functions and requirements. Operations teams can also use them to understand application requirements such as network ports, CPU and memory requirements, and much more.

We can also store them in source control repositories for easy versioning and running diffs against other versions.

Deploying Pods from a manifest file

Run the following playground to create a Kubernetes cluster and follow along to deploy our first application.