If you've been looking to deploy your Spring Boot app to the cloud but feel a little overwhelmed by all the moving pieces, don't worry, you're not alone. Kubernetes can seem intimidating at first, but

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A step-by-step guide to deploying a Spring Boot currency exchange app with MySQL on Amazon EKS. Covers the full workflow: creating a VPC with public/private subnets, provisioning an RDS MySQL instance, setting up SSH tunneling for local DB access, building and Dockerizing the Spring Boot app, pushing the image to ECR, creating an EKS cluster with eksctl, installing the AWS Load Balancer Controller via Helm, and deploying Kubernetes manifests using a Helm chart with secrets management. Includes troubleshooting tips and cleanup instructions.

How to Deploy a Spring Boot App with MySQL on Amazon EKS

<p>One thing that saved me on EKS deployments: get secrets, networking, and IAM roles right early. Fixing those later usually takes more time than deploying the app itself.</p>
