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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By : Alexander Raul
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

By: Alexander Raul

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container orchestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You’ll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you’ll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Setting Up Kubernetes
5
Section 2: Configuring and Deploying Applications on Kubernetes
11
Section 3: Running Kubernetes in Production
16
Section 4: Extending Kubernetes

Google Cloud – Google Kubernetes Engine

GKE is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service. With the gcloud command-line tool, it is very easy to quickly spin up a GKE cluster.

Getting started

To create a cluster on GKE using gcloud, you can either use Google Cloud's Cloud Shell service, or run the commands locally. If you want to run the commands locally, you must install the gcloud CLI via the Google Cloud SDK. See https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstarts for installation instructions.

Once you have gcloud installed, you need to ensure that you have activated the GKE API in your Google Cloud account.

To easily accomplish this, navigate to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library, then search for kubernetes in the search bar. Click on Kubernetes Engine API and then click Enable.

Now that the API is activated, set your project and compute zone in Google Cloud by using the following commands:

gcloud config set project proj_id
gcloud config...