I want to get more hands on, and instead of running theoretical container workloads, I'd like to mint up a new development project. So, to start, I'm actually going to snag an old project that's a bit of an unweildy monolith, and refactor into some more reusable bits. Maybe not quite microservices, but a bit more segmentation and cleaner lines. So I did an initial check, and while the code is still a bit unpolished, it seems like its fairly functional and mature. The code as it stands is not in API or a RESTful orientation, but I think it can be. I need to create a build and deployment process, along with a backup and recovery piece so that I can try bits out and then nuke the cattle when done. I'm actually excited about this, since this will help to give me some real-world practical motivation to figure out parts of k8s and containers.