Deploying a workload and interacting with your cluster

One of the things to note from the feedback when we launched our cluster is the following output:

kubeconfig entry generated for k8sforbeginners.

As you may have already guessed, this has downloaded and configured all of the necessary information to connect the kubectl instance that you used to launch the cluster. You can confirm this by running the following command:

$ kubectl get nodes

The output you get from the command should show two nodes with a prefix of gke, so should appear something like the following Terminal output:

Figure 14.9 – Using kubectl to list the nodes

If you saw the preceding output and you are happy to proceed with the kubectl instance you are using, then you can skip the next section of the chapter and move straight onto Launching an example workload.

You can also find a link to the official GKE documentation in the Further reading section at the end of...