Playing with Google Kubernetes Engine

Kubernetes was designed by google and widely used internally at Google for years. Google Cloud Platform offers the hosted GKE. With GKE, we don't need to build a cluster from scratch. Instead, clusters can be launched and turned down on demand.

Getting ready

We can use the Kubernetes Engine dashboard in the GCP console or the gcloud CLI to launched and configure a cluster. Using the console is very straightforward and intuitive. However, using CLI is a more flexible way to make the operation repeatable or to integrate it with your existing pipeline. In this recipe, we'll walk through how to use gcloud to launch and set up a Kubernetes cluster, along with some importants concept...