From Zero to HTTPS: Deploying the Spices App on Google Kubernetes Engine A hands-on journey from a crashing pod to a secure, production-ready SPA + API stack on GKE, powered by spices.polakams.com. This post is a practical end-to-end walk-through of deploying a real application, Spices (an Angular frontend with a REST backend) on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) , served securely at https://spices.polakams.com . Along the way we'll cover DNS (with the domain registered at GoDaddy), SSL via Google-managed certificates, a single Ingress that routes both frontend and backend, and every troubleshooting rabbit hole I fell into so you can skip them. 1. The Starting Point The goal was simple to state and deceptively involved in practice: Two Kubernetes Deployments — an Angular frontend ( spicesui-app ) and a REST API backend. Domain polakams.com registered with GoDaddy. Expose everything at https://spices.polakams.com with a trusted SSL cert...