Continuously deploying and testing a Kubernetes app remotely while you code

Follow these steps to see the results of your work while you write code:

1. Click Cloud Code in the status bar and then select Run on Kubernetes.
2. When prompted, click Use current context. This should be the context of your newly created GKE cluster:

Figure 3.13 – Selecting the Kubernetes context

3. In Choose Image Repository, type the path of the Artifact Registry repository you created:

Figure 3.14 – Choose Image Repository

This will be us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/PROJECT_ID/scdbook-repo, where PROJECT_ID is your Google Cloud project ID:

Figure 3.15 – Repository address

The build starts and the application is deployed to the GKE cluster you created. For a newly created GKE Autopilot cluster, this could take a couple of minutes while Autopilot allocates the needed resources.

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