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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we looked into Kubernetes a little deeper. We started the chapter by reviewing and revisiting some core Kubernetes concepts. We then went ahead to deploy our Kubernetes cluster and also our deployment associated with it. We then created our first workload, which was an nginx container. Remember, a workload is a container and is also referred to as a pod. In advanced use cases, a pod can have more than one container. We also talked about stateful applications and deployed persistent storage to store our application state. We made this storage available to our pods and verified the deployment as well. We learned how to expose our pods or containers to the internet and therefore have access to our application on port 80, which was mapped to our nginx deployment.

There is a lot more to Kubernetes than we have discussed in this chapter, and I strongly recommend...