GKE Infrastructure

Intermediate
3m
476
4.7/5

Course Description:

GKE is Google’s container management and orchestration service that allows you to run your containers at scale. GKE provides a managed Kubernetes infrastructure that gives you the power of Kubernetes while allowing you to focus on deploying and running your container clusters.

Intended audience:

  • This course is for developers or operations engineers looking to deploy containerized applications and/or services on Google’s Cloud Platform.
  • Viewers should have a basic understanding of containers. Some familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform will also be helpful but is not required.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the containerization functionality available on Google Cloud Platform.
  • Create and manage a container cluster in GKE.
  • Deploy your application to a GKE container cluster.

This Course Includes:

  • 45 minutes of high-definition video
  • Hands on demo

What You'll Learn:

  • Course Intro: What to expect from this course
  • GKE Platform: In this lesson, we’ll start digging into Docker, Kubernetes, and CLI.
  • GKE Infrastructure: Now that we understand a bit more about the platform, we’ll get into Docker images and K8 orchestration.
  • Cluster Creation: In this lesson, we’ll demo through the steps necessary to create a GKE cluster.
  • Application and Service Publication: In this live demo we’ll create a Kubernetes pod.
  • Cluster Management: In this lesson, we’ll discuss how you update a cluster and rights management.
  • Summary: A wrap-up and summary of what we’ve learned in this course.
About the Author

Steve is a consulting technology leader for Slalom Atlanta, a Microsoft Regional Director, and a Google Certified Cloud Architect. His focus for the past 5+ years has been IT modernization and cloud adoption with implementations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and numerous hybrid/private cloud platforms. Outside of work, Steve is an avid outdoorsman spending as much time as possible outside hiking, hunting, and fishing with his family of five.

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