Technical requirements

For this chapter, we will spin up a cloud-based Kubernetes cluster, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), for the exercises. At the time of writing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a free $300 trial for 90 days, so you can go ahead and sign up for one at https://console.cloud.google.com/.

You will also need to clone the following GitHub repository for some of the exercises: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e.

You can use the Cloud Shell offering available from GCP to follow this chapter. Go to Cloud Shell and start a new session. Run the following command to clone the repository into your home directory to access the required resources:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Modern-DevOps-Practices-2e.git \
modern-devops

We also need to set the project ID and enable a few GCP APIs we will use in this chapter. To do so, run the following commands:

$ PROJECT_ID=<YOUR_PROJECT_ID>
$ gcloud services enable iam...