Creating a GKE cluster

The simplest way to deploy a cluster is to use the Google Cloud Console. This is also a good way to see all the available options without having to read the command-line reference. Let's get started:

  1. From the hamburger menu, choose Kubernetes Engine | Clusters. In the pop-up window, click on the Create cluster button, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. In the following pane, you can choose a template for your cluster, depending on the workload type. We will go with Standard cluster as we want to deploy a simple web application. On the right-hand side, we can choose more detailed settings for the cluster. Let's ...

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