April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) supports Kubernetes out of the box. The so-called Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a container management solution built on Kubernetes. You don't need to install Kubernetes on GCP, and you can use the Google Cloud API to create Kubernetes clusters and provision them. The fact that Kubernetes is a built-in part of the GCP means it will always be well integrated and well tested, and you don't have to worry about changes to the underlying platform breaking the cloud-provider interface.
All in all, if you plan to base your system on Kubernetes and you don't have any existing code on other cloud platforms, then GCP is a solid choice.
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