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Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
Book Image

Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu

Overview of this book

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform to manage containers in a cluster environment. With Kubernetes, you can configure and deploy containerized applications easily. This book gives you a quick brush up on how Kubernetes works with containers, and an overview of main Kubernetes concepts, such as Pods, Deployments, Services and etc. This book explains how to create Kubernetes clusters and run applications with proper authentication and authorization configurations. With real-world recipes, you'll learn how to create high availability Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP and in on-premise datacenters with proper logging and monitoring setup. You'll also learn some useful tips about how to build a continuous delivery pipeline for your application. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to use Kubernetes in production and will have a better understanding of how to manage containers using Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Playing with GCP

GCP is getting popular in the public cloud industry. It has concepts similar to AWS, such as VPC, a compute engine, persistent disks, load balancing, and several managed services. The most interesting service is GKE, which is the managed Kubernetes cluster. We will explore how to use GCP and GKE.

Getting ready

To use GCP, you need to have a Google account such as Gmail (https://mail.google.com/mail/), which many people already have. Then sign up to GCP using your Google account by following these steps:

  1. Go to the https://cloud.google.com website then click the Try it free button
  2. Log in to Google using your Google account
  3. Register with GCP and enter your personal information and billing information

That...