Bootstrapping an auto scaling web application within AWS via Kubernetes Let’s create a state-of-the-art deployment pipeline for cloud native applications. In this guide, I’ll be using Kubernetes on AWS to bootstrap a load-balanced, static-files only web application. This is serious overkill for such an application, however this will showcase several necessities when designing such a system for more sophisticated applications. This guide assumes you are using OSX. You also need to be familiar with both homebrew and AWS.