Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) – A Beginner’s Guide

Every expert was once a beginner

Created by: Aseef Ahmed
AWS, GCP & Azure Certified Cloud Engineer

What Will I Learn?

• A very high level overview of Docker
• Different aspects of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Different services of Google Cloud Platform that might be used together with Google Kubernetes Engine
• How to deploy a micro service based application in Kubernetes Engine
• Different approaches of deploying applications in Kubernetes Engine
• How to monitor an application deployed in Kubernetes cluster using Google's monitoring tool
• How Kubernetes & Google Kubernetes Engine works in real life projects
• How to Deploy a Stateful Application within the Kubernetes Cluster using GKE
• How to Deploy a Slack Chat Bot Application within the Kubernetes Cluster using GKE

Requirements

• Basic understating of Linux command will help
• This course is not about Kubernetes itself. Therefore, I expect you to have some basic understanding of various Kubernetes objects such as pods, deployments, services and so on.
• As this course is mostly about Google Kubernetes Engine, you must need an active account on Google Cloud Platform so that you can do enough practices while going through this course

Target audience

• Developers who want to deploy their applications in to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• DepOps engineers who want to move into Kubernetes from their traditional infrastructure
• Anyone who want to explore various features of Google Kubernetes Engine