GKE-and-Sample-App

What is GKE?

Google Container Engine(GKE) is a Management and orchestration system for Containers. It is a container platform which Kubernetes can manage, in short, it is a hosted Kubernetes. Goal of GKE is to increase the productivity of devops teams by hiding the complexity of setting up the k8s cluster, overlay network, etc by simple user interface

How to create cluster using GKE?

Set the zone in which you want to try out the example.
gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-a

Create the cluster using following command
gcloud container --project <project-name> clusters create <cluster-name> --machine-type n1-standard-2 --image-type "CONTAINER_VM" --disk-size "50" --num-nodes 2 --network default --enable-cloud-logging --no-enable-cloud-monitoring

To verify if cluster is up, check
kubectl get node

How to deploy sample application?

1. Create services,
   kubectl create -f mysql-service.yaml
kubectl create -f testapp-service.yaml

2. Create deployments,
   kubectl create -f mysql-deployment.yaml
kubectl create -f testapp-deployment.yaml