You're reading from Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218019

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Sandeep Madamanchi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps

2. Chapter 1: DevOps, SRE, and Google Cloud Services for CI/CD FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: SRE Technical Practices – Deep Dive

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Monitoring and Alerting to Target Reliability

5. Chapter 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices

6. Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD

7. Chapter 5: Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

10. Chapter 8: Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

11. Chapter 9: Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs

12. Chapter 10: Exploring GCP Cloud Operations

13. Mock Exam 1

Answers

14. Mock Exam 2

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

GKE Autopilot – hands-on lab

GKE Autopilot or Autopilot is one of the two modes of operation supported by GKE. The other mode being the standard mode (which was elaborated on at the start of this chapter). Autopilot removes the need to perform do-it-yourself (DIY) actions during cluster creation and instead creates a cluster with the industry-standard recommendations regarding networking and security. In addition, Autopilot removes the need to configure node pools or estimate the size of the cluster upfront. Nodes are automatically provisioned based on the types of deployed workloads and the user is essentially charged for the running workloads.

Autopilot is not only managed but is also a serverless K8s offering from GKE. Autopilot, however, does not offer all cluster configuration choices offered by the standard mode. The following table represents the configuration choices offered by Autopilot in comparison to the standard mode: