Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Deploying our first application

Now that we have created a cluster, we can deploy our first application. We will provision a simple NGINX web server using three Pods. For this purpose, we will use the Deployment object. Then, we will expose the application using the Service object.

To demonstrate different ways of creating Kubernetes objects, we will use both kubectl and the Google Cloud Console. Once they have been successfully deployed, we will check their connectivity. Let's get started:

Exam tip: Expect to see questions on GKE and Kubernetes command-line tools. Remember that gcloud is used for managing the GKE cluster while kubectl is a Kubernetes native tool. So, as an example, if you want to scale a GKE cluster, you would use gcloud ...