I am new to DevOps. I wrote a deployment.yaml file for a Kubernetes cluster I just created on Digital Oceans. Creating the deployment keeps bringing up errors that I can't decode for now. This is just a test deployment in preparation for the migration of my company's web apps to kubernetes.

I tried editing the content of the deployment to look like conventional examples I've found. I can't even get this simple example to work. You may find the deployment.yaml content below.

---
kind: Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
  name: testit-01-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 4
  #number of replicas generated
  selector:
    #assigns labels to the pods for future selection
    matchLabels:
      app: testit
      version: v01
  template:
    metadata:
      Labels:
        app: testit
        version: v01
    spec:
      containers:
        -name: testit-container
        image: teejayfamo/testit
        ports:
          -containerPort: 80

I ran this line on cmd in the folder container:

kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml --validate=false

Error from server (BadRequest): error when creating "deployment.yaml": Deployment in version "v1" cannot be handled as a Deployment: v1.Deployment.Spec: v1.DeploymentSpec.Template: v1.PodTemplateSpec.Spec: v1.PodSpec.Containers: []v1.Container: decode slice: expect [ or n, but found {, error found in #10 byte of ...|tainers":{"-name":"t|..., bigger context ...|:"testit","version":"v01"}},"spec":{"containers":{"-name":"testit-container","image":"teejayfamo/tes|...

I couldn't even get any information on this from my search. I can't just get the deployment created. Pls, who understands and can put me through?