docker-development-youtube-series/kubernetes/cloud/google/getting-started.md

Getting Started with GKE

Google Cloud CLI

https://hub.docker.com/r/google/cloud-sdk/

# Run Google Cloud CLI
docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}:/work -w /work --entrypoint /bin/bash google/cloud-sdk:160.0.0

cd ./kubernetes/cloud/google

Login to GCloud

#login and follow prompts
gcloud auth login

gcloud projects list

gcloud projects create getting-started-gke
gcloud config set project getting-started-gke

Enable APIs for your Project.

You may be prompted to enable APIs in Google Console for your project in order to proceed. Follow the prompts.

Create our cluster

Machine types : https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types

# machine types
gcloud compute machine-types list > machine-types.log

# Get k8s versions for your zone
gcloud container get-server-config --zone australia-southeast1-c

# full list of options
gcloud container clusters create --help

gcloud container clusters create gke-getting-started \
--cluster-version 1.16.8-gke.15 \
--disk-size 200 \
--num-nodes 1 \
--machine-type e2-small \
--no-enable-cloud-endpoints \
--no-enable-cloud-logging \
--no-enable-cloud-monitoring  \
--zone australia-southeast1-c

Get a kubeconfig for our cluster

gcloud container clusters get-credentials gke-getting-started --zone australia-southeast1-c

#grab the config if you want it
cp ~/.kube/config .

Get kubectl

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

cd ../..


kubectl create ns example-app

# lets create some resources.
kubectl apply -n example-app -f secrets/secret.yaml
kubectl apply -n example-app -f configmaps/configmap.yaml
kubectl apply -n example-app -f deployments/deployment.yaml

# remember to change the `type: LoadBalancer`
kubectl apply -n example-app -f services/service.yaml

Clean up

gcloud container clusters delete gke-getting-started --zone australia-southeast1-c