Docker

If you are exposing AI-enabled capabilities in your product and supporting external integrations, there is a good chance you will implement an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to handle tool calls from LLMs. When you do, you will need to manage authentication, input validation, multi-tenant isolation, and more. Instead of starting from scratch, I have put together a starter-kit that gives you all this out of the box: JWT-based tenant authentication, input validation, per-function metadata, cloud-native & container-ready with Docker, and standard endpoints as per the MCP spec.

Building for Kubernetes is complex. For any fairly complex app that has multiple services, developing, building and deploying these services in a standard fashion can be a challenge. Skaffold is a tool that simplifies this process by automating the build, push, and deploy process, making it easier for teams to develop and deploy applications consistently.

Platform, engineering and IT teams constantly provision new databases, configure servers, set up networking, provision storage, etc. to create infrastructure for applications to run. Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and configure computing infrastructure using code instead of manual processes.