Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

wikipedia:Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a Google Cloud Kubernetes managed service, available since Aug 2015 for deploying containerized applications such as Docker containers.

• Pricing: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/pricing#cluster_management_fee_and_free_tier

Features

• Integrated logging and monitoring

News

• Jun 2022 GKE release channels: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-release-channels-get-enhanced-maintenance-windows
• Feb 2021 Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot
• December 2018, Istio launches as beta on GKE

Activities

• Read StackOverflow Google Kubernetes Engine questions: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/google-kubernetes-engine?tab=Votes
• Review GKE architecture specialization certification
  • https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/cluster-access-for-kubectl
• Provide access to GKE cluster

Related terms

• GKE Autopilot
• GKE release channels
• GKE roles
• GKE logs, GCP Node logs: Warning
• Backup for GKE
• Anthos
• Amazon EKS
• Container registry
• Container-Optimized OS (cos)
• google_container_node_pool
• kind: ProtectedApplication

Activities

• Deploy GKE cluster using Terraform: gke.tf

See also

• gke.io, storage.gke.io, iam.gke.io, networking.gke.io
• gcloud container [ clusters | images | get-server-config | subnets ]
• GKE, GKE Autopilot, gcloud container, gke-gcloud-auth-plugin, GKE release channels, GKE Ingress, GCP Node logs, GCP Node logs severity Error, GKE roles, Provide access to GKE cluster, Deploy GKE cluster using Terraform, cluster_autoscaling, addons_config, GKE Node Pool, node auto-provisioning
• Kubernetes cloud services: EKS, GKE (Anthos), AKS, Docker Kubernetes Service (DKS), TKE

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/08/Google-Container-Engine-is-Generally-Available.html

https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/google-launches-istio-on-gke/

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/announcing-new-gke-architecture-specialization