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Container orchestration with GKE

Container orchestration with GKE

- [Instructor] Here we have Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, and it is a service on the Google Cloud platform that allows you to build orchestration for containers. And of course, because Google is the originator of Kubernetes, they do have very good support for the platform. One of the things that we're going to do is use the GKE Autopilot mode, which allows us to easily set up a cluster. So to start with, let's go over to Kubernetes cluster. You can see I already have one running. Let's go ahead and create a new one though. Go ahead and say CREATE. And notice how it says, "Autopilot Google manages your cluster, Recommended." And it's a pay-per-Pod Kubernetes cluster. If we go ahead and say create, it's very straightforward, it automatically gives you a name, gives us a region. We can go ahead and go to NEXT: NETWORKING. We can leave everything default. And we can go to other things. For example, automation, integration with onsite through Anthos. We're just going to go ahead and…

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