Chapter 5: Virtual Machines and Container Applications on Google Cloud Platform
In this chapter, you will learn how to use the different services offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to deploy VMs and container applications using Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Cloud Run. You will also learn how to expose and deploy applications in those services.
In this chapter, you will learn about the following:
- Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes
- How to use virtual machines on GCP
- Forgetting the complexity of managing a Kubernetes cluster with GKE and Cloud Run
- The full deployment life cycle of an application on Google Compute Engine
- The full deployment life cycle of an application on Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Run