Migrating a Full-Stack App to Kubernetes: Digital Signage on k3s
TL;DR Today I migrated Digital Signage — an Angular SPA backed by 7 Flask microservices, an MQTT broker, and PostgreSQL — from a development environment to the k3s cluster. This is the most complex application on the cluster so far, and deploying it taught me a lot about managing multi-service applications in Kubernetes. The Application Digital Signage started as a side project back in May 2025, designed to drive informational displays on Raspberry Pi kiosk devices. It evolved over the months into a surprisingly complex system: ...