Google Kubernetes Engine

In the last lesson, we looked at the Compute Engine service. It has a lot of operations work to handle. Also, in the instance group, we looked at autoscaling and how to configure it. This lesson is all about Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE in short) is one step ahead in terms of minimizing the operations workload for users. As we know, GKE is suitable for containerized workloads. To understand the GKE in detail, let’s learn a little about Kubernetes.

Introduction to Kubernetes

One lesson is not enough to explain the Kubernetes in detail. However, this lesson gives you a little high-level overview of Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is a container orchestration (management) tool. Created by Google, it was used to manage Google’s own infrastructure. Kubernetes is a giant server made up of small servers. Sometimes also called a Kubernetes Cluster.