In the last post we looked at how to automate the creation of GKE Kubernetes clusters in GCP, however the deployment of workloads to these clusters was still something of a manual process. Enter Helm; the a package manager for Kubernetes. If this is your first time hearing those words it can be pretty confusing, typically when we think of package management we think of application packages or application dependencies . . .
Google Cloud Platform tends to be forgotten from the conversation a lot when talking about public cloud offerings, however their hosted Kubernetes offering GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) has for me been the best of the major offerings for getting to grips with the platform and the best reason to use GCP at all. Without much issue we can get Terraform integrated with GCP, provision and scale out clusters as we . . .