Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, HTML widgets, and JavaScript actions.

These next steps demonstrating using R based Shiny applications on Kubernetes. With a Kubernetes cluster and a CLI tool called kubectl, a few steps will get Shiny servers running.

In this lab, you will learn how to:

    ☐ Use the basics of the kubectl CLI tool
    ☐ Install Shiny R applications on Kubernetes
    ☐ Deploy containers as Deployments in Pods
    ☐ Use a Service to access a Pod