Chapter 14: Kubernetes Clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine

In this chapter, we are going to look at launching our very own Kubernetes cluster in the first of the three public cloud providers that we will be covering in this title: Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

By the end of the chapter, we will have signed up to GCP and launched a Kubernetes workload using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), as well as having discussed some of the features that GKE has to offer.

We will be covering the following topics:

  • What are GCP and GKE?
  • Preparing your local environment
  • Launching your first GKE cluster
  • Deploying a workload and interacting with your cluster
  • More about cluster nodes

Technical requirements

To follow along with this chapter, you will need a GCP ...

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