Running Fission in the cloud

Now we have an idea of what is involved in launching and interacting with Fission when it is running locally, let's look at launching Kubernetes in the cloud and then configuring Fission to run there.

Note

For the remainder of this section, I will be only providing instructions for macOS High Sierra and Ubuntu 17.04 hosts as this these have a greater level of compatibility with the commands we will be running.

Launching the Kubernetes cluster

I am going to be launching my Kubernetes in Google Cloud using the following command:

$ gcloud container clusters create kube-cluster

The output of the preceding command can be seen in the following screenshot:

Once launched, which should take about 5 minutes at the most, you can check that your cluster is up and running as expected by using the following:

$ kubectl get nodes

The output of the preceding command can be seen in the following screenshot:

Now that we have our three-node cluster up and running, and our local Kubernetes...