How many acronyms or abbreviations can I fit into one title. As an organization leverages kubernetes more and more, a shared environment may become more prevalent, rather than many clusters.
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Kubernetes has an ingress controller to help you manage your layer 7 HTTP traffic. It has concepts around hostnames, TLS and maps back to your services within k8s. On Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) when an ingress is specified, it will spin up an external HTTP Google Cloud Load Balancer.
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When there are source files, Continuous Integration tools of some form need to be considered. In the name of automation, everytime commits are pushed, something should be verifying the content right?
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As I am just starting to use Terraform for GKE, I noticed the google provider plugin support for Terraform is constantly improving for the GKE component. There are many ways to get started, but there are also some guides to getting started with the examples.
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Introduction Application data will at some point be stored somewhere. This storage can be in a database external of the cluster, storage buckets, or external systems. If it is within the cluster, what happens to the data if I want to migrate to a new cluster or want to consider backups / HA / DR scenarios.
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There are many ways to handle ingress or traffic into your cluster. GKE provides a cloud resources to help manage your traffic into your cluster. Below are a few specified, but there are other methods as well.
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