Summary
In this chapter, we learned about GKE, as well as microservices and containers. We went through basic Kubernetes concepts and described the most important Kubernetes objects. We also looked at the advantages of using GKE, including automated deployment, autoscaling, and auto-upgrades. We deployed a cluster and looked at second-day operations. We also looked at how to connect to a cluster with the kubectl command. If you feel like doing some additional reading, have a look at the links that are provided in the Further reading section.
In the next chapter, we will talk about the Cloud Run service, which allows you to run cloud-native workloads without having to provision GKE clusters.
