Kubernetes Management Design Patterns: With Docker, CoreOS Linux, and Other Platforms

© Deepak Vohra 2017

Deepak Vohra, Kubernetes Management Design Patterns, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2598-1_3

3. Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

Deepak Vohra¹ 

(1)White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Google Cloud Platform is a public cloud computing platform that includes database services and infrastructure on which applications and websites may be hosted on managed virtual machines. This integrated PaaS/IaaS is a collection of services that may be categorized into Compute, Storage and Databases, Networking, Big Data, and Machine Learning, to list a few.

Problem

While Docker is pre-installed on CoreOS, Kubernetes is not. As discussed in Chapter 2 Kubernetes has to be installed on CoreOS.

Solution

The service category of most interest for using Kubernetes ...