As a part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” our task was to bring an application into a cloud environment. When we presented our software project MUM at the Media Night in our 4th semester, we talked with a few people about dockerizing MUM together with a whole email server configuration. While brainstorming a project idea for the lecture, we remembered these conversations. And since Docker by itself would not have fulfilled all of our requirements, we decided to create a Kubernetes cluster that would house a complete email server environmen and would be even easier to install. That way we could learn more about containerization and how clustering with Kubernetes works.

How Does Email Work?

First of all, we need to make a small trip to the world of emails to better understand what we actually wanted to do.

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