tion-with-external-ratings-database>Bookinfo sample application with external ratings database</h2><p>First, you set up a MySQL database instance to hold book ratings data outside of your Kubernetes cluster. Then you
modify the <a href=/v1.5/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo sample application</a> to use your database.</p><h3 id=setting-up-the-database-for-ratings-data>Setting up the database for ratings data</h3><p>For this task you set up an instance of <a href=https://www.mysql.com>MySQL</a>. You can use 