Working with applications
The beauty of Kubernetes is that applications developed, tested, and run on-premises can be moved to other Kubernetes environments without major refactoring. Of course, if you use a specific load balancer or storage type that isn’t available in GKE, you will need to adjust those settings.
In the next section, we will learn what Artifact Registry is, its features, and how it can make our life easier.
Artifact Registry
Artifact Registry is a new product from Google Cloud that inherited features from Google Container Registry (GCR) and got some new features.
A container registry is a product that stores and manages Docker images and performs vulnerability analysis with fine-grained access control. You could easily integrate your CI/CD pipelines with it and store the images securely in a private repository.
Artifact Registry goes beyond GCR. Not only does it have the features of a container registry but also many others:
- Artifact...