Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

The last two chapters (Chapter 5, Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories, and Chapter 6, Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry) focused on Google Cloud services to manage source code via cloud source repositories, build code via Cloud Build, and create image artifacts using Container Registry. Given that the focus of this book is to deploy containerized applications, the next three chapters (from Chapter 7, Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications, through to Chapter 9, Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs) are centered around essential concepts related to deploying containerized applications through Kubernetes, easy cluster management through Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and a rundown of key security features in GKE that are essential for hardening the Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open source...