Complete TaskFlow Stack on Kubernetes Lab

🛠 Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 8. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):

• Week 8: Kubernetes Fundamentals (slug: kubernetes-fundamentals)

This is the capstone lab for Week 8, where you assemble the entire real TaskFlow stack on Kubernetes. Lab setup redeploys the exact backend, ConfigMap, Secret, and PostgreSQL StatefulSet you built by hand in last week's lab, cloned fresh from the canonical TaskFlow repo and built from its own Dockerfile. Your job in this lab is to add the one tier that's new: the real Vue.js frontend, also built from its own production Dockerfile.

You'll deploy the frontend, expose it externally with a NodePort Service, and verify every real backend endpoint (there's no task management API yet, that's explicit Week 3+ work) along with Kubernetes DNS resolution between every tier. You'll then investigate a genuine, documented limitation in the frontend's current code, a hardcoded API URL that only works for local development, and understand why platform engineers sometimes ship around a known gap rather than silently patching application code that isn't theirs to fix. You'll finish by testing pod auto-recovery, StatefulSet data persistence, and manual scaling, then reveal all seven real production manifests for a full side-by-side comparison against everything you built across this lab and the two before it.