Cloud Run for Anthos requires a Kubernetes cluster. At a high level, Kubernetes provides a platform on which to manage (or orchestrate) containers. Outlining the value of Kubernetes is beyond the scope of this book, but it suffices to say it is something that is well worth the investment of time.
To deploy code to Cloud Run for Anthos, there is an assumption that there is a GKE cluster available. Cloud Run for Anthos requires some pre-existing infrastructure to be available prior to deployment taking place. In this section, we will spin up a cluster and then deploy our application to it to explore in what ways the process is different between Cloud Run for Anthos and Cloud Run.
The following example uses Cloud Shell to enter ...
