Google Kubernetes Engine
- This is kubernetes as a service from GCP i.e this will manage control plane and charge you according virtual machine prices for the nodes created.
- GKE has two modes for create kubernetes clusters
- GKE Standard
- GKE Autopilot
- GKE Clusters consits of one or more control plane nodes and multiple worker nodes.
- GKE Standard mode:
- default node machine type is e2-medium
- Each node has the following options for os images
- Container optimized OS with containerd
- Ubuntu with containerd
- Windows LTS with containerd
- Container optimized OS with Docker
- Ubuntu with Docker
- Windows LTS with Docker
- GKE Autopilot: This is roughly equivelent to fargate profiles in AWS (Serverless k8s)
- Refer Here for the differences in standard and Autopilot
- Autopilot cluster creation: View classroom recording
- Refer Here for gke cloud kubectl and auth plugin
