If you look back over the last few years, you will probably not see much that has caught on at the same pace and scale as containerization. Docker was initially released in March 2013, and then the initial release of Kubernetes followed about a year later in June 2014. Since their releases, both Docker and Kubernetes have spread like wildfire and now boast some fairly staggering adoption numbers.
This chapter will mostly focus on Google's managed Kubernetes Engine (GKE), but will also talk to Kubernetes itself, so that you get exposure to the core concepts and tenets of the ecosystem as a whole. After reading, you'll walk away with the tools and knowledge needed to deploy solutions to GKE and manage them effectively.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Learning about Kubernetes and GKE
- Understanding the driving philosophies behind...