In this post I go over the steps of getting into a shift-left mindset. I will go over the four steps of software release (DTAP), and take a practical approach to learning this concept.Let’s prepare our application for deployment! I will go over the steps to deploy a Quakrus application into a container and deploy it to a Minikube cluster running on your own machine.In post I will go over the levels of validation, and how to implement them in a Quarkus application.