original Bookinfo application"></a></div><figcaption>The original Bookinfo application</figcaption></figure><h3 id=use-the-database-for-ratings-data-in-bookinfo-application>Use the database for ratings data in Bookinfo application</h3><ol><li><p>Modify the deployment spec of a version of the <em>ratings</em> microservice that uses a MySQL database, to use your
database instance. The spec is in <a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/release-1.3/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo-ratings-v2-mysql.ya