Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is getting popular in the public cloud industry that is provided by Google. GCP has similar concepts as AWS such as VPC, Compute Engine, Persistent Disk, Load Balancing, and several managed services. In this chapter, you will learn about GCP and how to set up Kubernetes on GCP through the following topics:
- Understanding GCP
- Using and understanding GCP components
- Using Google Container Engine (GKE), the hosted Kubernetes service