Chapter 7: Compute and Containers Flashcards
In this chapter, we’ll cover Running computing workloads in the cloud and where the industry is headed Basics of the Google Computer Engine, App Engine, and Kubernetes Engine Googles IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and FaaS offerings in the cloud How to manage your API endpoints securely and effectively
Exam Tip
Remember the command syntax kubectl [command] [TYPE] [NAME] [flags] that you use when interfacing with your Kubernetes environment. And gcloud container is the syntax of the command you use when you interact with GKE’s clusters, node pools, images, subnets, and operations.
Re read the chapter about the kubernetes infrastructure setup. It says “A node is known as your worker machine and runs your containerized applications and other workloads. Your node essentially is a Compute Engine VM instance.”
This is why when interacting with “GKE’s clusters, node pools, images, subnets, and operations” you use the “gcloud containers” commands instead of “kubectl”. “kubectl” is for “interfacing with your Kubernetes environment”.
These are the questions that will try and catch you out. try to think of it as:
Am I deploying or editing the Kubernetes infrastructure? (gcloud containers)
Am I playing with the configuration inside the provisioned infrastructure? (kubectl)
