In this article, we delve into the exciting realm of containerizing Helidon applications, followed by deploying them effortlessly to a Kubernetes environment.  To achieve this, we’ll harness the power of JKube’s Kubernetes Maven Plugin, a versatile tool for Java applications for Kubernetes deployments that has recently been updated to version 1.14.0. 

What’s exciting about this release is that it now supports the Helidon framework, a Java Microservices gem open-sourced by Oracle in 2018. If you’re curious about Helidon, we’ve got some blog posts to get you up to speed: