Archives for GKE
Pass Through (Network) Load balancers and GKE Ingress Firewall Rule
Overview If you created a GKE service that allows external access, you will be surprised to see a few firewall rules (at the VPC level) created automatically for you. Some…
Anthos and Multi Cluster Ingress
Multi Cluster Ingress is a Google-hosted service that helps customers build Anthos architecture through clusters deployed across multiple cloud regions. Resiliency Redirect traffic to the nearest cluster ( lowest latency…
Layer 7 Load balancing GKE
Also read HTTP External Load Balancer in GCP and SSL Proxy Load Balancer in GCP In general, Network Layer Load Balancing is simpler and built into the GKE cluster. However,…
GKE – Why have more than one container per pod?
Say you have a Web Server that you need containerized. Part of that server services requests that are long running task (most likely run by a background process). It would…
Kubnernetes and GKE Basics
(This is work in on GKE docs and some quiklabs) Kubernetes only manages nodes - the nodes can be anything (VMs with Kubelet and Kube-Proxy installed) Kubernetes itself does not…
GKE Topologies
Scenario 1 - For an upcoming Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, the current cluster size is expected to host 10 nodes, with 20 Pods per node and 150 services. Because…
Scale a GKE Cluster for more CPUs
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