Getting the Ball Rolling with Kubernetes and the Top Three Cloud Platforms

When starting your Kubernetes journey, the typical first step is to create a Kubernetes cluster to work with. The reason why is that if you, for example, start by creating a Kubernetes Manifest (more on this in later chapters), you’ll have nowhere to deploy the Manifest to because you don’t have a Kubernetes cluster. The other reality when it comes to Kubernetes is there’s a ton of cloud-native operations management – things such as monitoring a cluster, automating the deployment of a cluster, and scaling a cluster. Because of that, understanding cluster creation is a crucial step in your Kubernetes journey.

In the previous chapter, you learned not only about why Kubernetes is important but also the backstory of why engineers want to use orchestration in today’s world. In this chapter, you’re going to hit the ground running by creating and managing your very own Kubernetes...