Chapter 16: Orchestrating Your Application with Google Kubernetes Engine

The remaining three chapters of this book cover the three major options for deploying our application as cloud-native microservices, which are Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google App Engine, and Cloud Run. This chapter focuses on GKE, which serves as a platform for deploying microservices, though not serverless ones. We will cover provisioning a cluster, configuring the environment and microservices, deploying our application, and configuring public access to the application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing GKE
  • Configuring the environment
  • Deploying and configuring the microservices
  • Configuring public access to the application
  • When to ...

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