Learn how to easily spin up a Kubernetes Cluster on Google Cloud Platform.
Google Kubernetes Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers and manages the master node for you.
Running a GKE cluster will cost you around $25.00/mo using a single worker node with 1vCPU and 3.75GB RAM (plenty for a blog or running a few containers for instance). Check out this Google Cloud Platform Pricing Quote for more examples on pricing.
For new users you also get a beefy $300 in free credits that can be used up to a year!
There are two ways to creating a cluster. You can use the web user interface console (video) or the command line (below). All in all it only takes a few minutes. Once the cluster has been created you will use gcloud container clusters get-credentials to setup your kubectl configuration file locally and you’re all set.
Create a new cluster via gcloud cli
gcloud container clusters create [CLUSTER_NAME]Setup gcloud cli
$ gcloud container clusters list
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials [CLUSTER_NAME]Run a test kubectl command
$ kubectl get node
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-7nmb Ready <none> 2h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-82zn Ready <none> 2h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-9t45 Ready <none> 14h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-bc4f Ready <none> 2h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-ftg2 Ready <none> 15h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-gz1p Ready <none> 15h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-jn1c Ready <none> 15h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-jwb0 Ready <none> 2h v1.10.7-gke.2
gke-cluster-1-pool-1-784963d2-x7xz Ready <none> 14h v1.10.7-gke.2Now that your cluster is up and running how about we Deploy Highly Available WordPress!