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Creating a GKE cluster

Creating a GKE cluster

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Creating a GKE cluster

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Back to our main project page on the GCP, click on the hamburger icon which brings up the navigation menu showing you all GCP's products and services. Head over to Kubernetes Engine Clusters. This is where we'll create a GKE cluster, where we'll deploy Argo CD and deploy our application as well. We have no clusters set up initially. Click on the Create button to create a Kubernetes cluster. Now, this brings up a dialog asking you to specify what kind of cluster you're interested in. I'll choose a standard cluster here where we pay based on the size of the cluster, how many nodes it has, and it offers a lot more flexibility. Autopilot clusters are the more managed variation of Google Kubernetes clusters, and those are often recommended when you want a low-maintenance, hands-off approach. I'm picking the standard cluster here because here we'll be able to clearly see the nodes that the cluster creates, the zones where the nodes live, etc. It's just a Kubernetes experience that's more…

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