You're reading from Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition Enhance your containerization and DevOps skills to deliver production-ready applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216572

Length 568 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

Containerization

Author (1):

Russ McKendrick

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker

2. Chapter 1: Docker Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building Container Images

4. Chapter 3: Storing and Distributing Images

5. Chapter 4: Managing Containers

6. Chapter 5: Docker Compose

7. Chapter 6: Docker Machine, Vagrant, and Multipass

8. Section 2: Clusters and Clouds

9. Chapter 7: Moving from Linux to Windows Containers

10. Chapter 8: Clustering with Docker Swarm

11. Chapter 9: Portainer – A GUI for Docker

12. Chapter 10: Running Docker in Public Clouds

13. Chapter 11: Docker and Kubernetes

14. Chapter 12: Discovering other Kubernetes options

15. Chapter 13: Running Kubernetes in Public Clouds

16. Section 3: Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Docker Security

18. Chapter 15: Docker Workflows

19. Chapter 16: Next Steps with Docker

20. Assessments

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The GKE, as you may have already guessed, is very tightly integrated with Google's Cloud platform. Rather than going into more detail on how Kubernetes started off life at Google, let's dive straight in and launch a cluster.

Going ahead, I am assuming that you already have a Google Cloud account and a project with billing enabled.

Launching a cluster using the web portal

Once you are logged into https://console.cloud.google.com/, enter Kubernetes into the search box at the top of the page and select Kubernetes Engine. If you don't have the service enabled for your project, it will automatically be enabled, and after a few seconds, you will be presented with a page that looks like the following:

Figure 13.14 – The Kubernetes page in the Google Cloud web portal

Again, as you might have already guessed, the first step to launching the cluster is to click on the Create cluster button. You will then be...