Summary
Containerization of applications isn’t something new; it is a fact. We need it not only to be successful when passing the Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification but also to understand the future of the application deployment. Microservices, containerization, and micro-segmentation are “the now,” and we can’t avoid them. we hope the concept of containers, accompanying services, and various deployment types described in this chapter will help you not only scratch the surface but practically use them in real life as well.
Although we would have liked to dig deeper into some GKE sections, we had to focus on the overall target—passing the ACE cert. Kubernetes and GKE are such exciting topics that many books, blog articles, and videos have been created about them. Topics covered in this chapter are aligned with ACE requirements, but if you wish to dive deeper into GKE, we encourage you to follow up with detailed publications about it.
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