This is the first part of a two-part blog post that is concerned with extracting data from Jira and using it for further applications such as visualization, evaluation, and using the power of machine learning to gain valuable insights in the data.

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you define the services that need to run in a YAML file. Then bring up the services by using the docker-compose command.

The aim of this entry is to provide some basic ideas for using Kubernetes to deploy a small microservices-based application.