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Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee
Cheng-Yang Wu
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is becoming popular in the public cloud industry that's provided by Google. GCP has concepts that are similar to those provided by AWS, such as VPC, Compute Engine, Persistent Disk, Load Balancing, and several managed services. In this chapter, you'll learn about GCP and how to set up Kubernetes on GCP through the following topics:
GCP was officially launched in 2011. Unlike AWS, GCP initially provided PaaS (Platform as a Service). Consequently, you can deploy your application directly instead of launching a VM. After that, GCP added some services and functionalities.
The most important service for Kubernetes users is GKE, which is a hosted Kubernetes service. So, you can get some relief from Kubernetes installation, upgrades, and management. This has a pay–as–you–go style approach to using the Kubernetes cluster. GKE is also a very active service that keeps providing new versions of Kubernetes in a timely manner and keeps coming up with new features and management tools for Kubernetes as well.
Let's take a look at what kind of foundation and services GCP provides and then we'll explore GKE.
Overall, some GCP have introduced in previous sections. Now you can start to set up Kubernetes on GCP VM instances using those components. You can even use open-source Kubernetes provisioning tools such as kops and kubespray too.
However, GCP has a managed Kubernetes service called GKE. Under the hood, this uses some GCP components such as VPC, VM instances, PD, firewall rules, and LoadBalancers.
Of course, as usual you can use the kubectl command to control your Kubernetes cluster on GKE, which includes the Cloud SDK. If you haven't installed the kubectl command on your machine yet, type the following command to install it...
In this chapter, we discussed Google Cloud Platform. Its basic concept is similar to AWS, but some policies and concepts are different. This is particularly the case for Google Container Engine, as this is a very powerful service for using Kubernetes as production grade. Kubernetes cluster and node management is quite easy to install and upgrade. The cloud provider is also fully integrated with GCP (especially ingress, as this can configure the L7 LoadBalancer with one command). Consequently, it's highly recommended you try GKE if you plan to use Kubernetes on the public cloud.
Chapter 12, Kubernetes on Azure, will explore one more public cloud service named Microsoft Azure, which also provides a managed Kubernetes service.
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