Deploying Application Pods
Now that you have created a cluster, let’s deploy an application.
From the Cluster page of the Kubernetes Engine on Cloud Console, select Create Deployment. A form such as the one in Figure 7.8 appears. Within this form you can specify the following:
- Container image
- Environment variables
- Initial command
- Application name
- Labels
- Namespace
- Cluster to deploy to
FIGURE 7.8 The Create Deployment option provides a form to specify a container to run and an initial command to start the application running.
Once you have specified a deployment, you can display the corresponding YAML specification, which can be saved and used to create deployments from the command line. Figure 7.9 shows an example deployment YAML file. The output is always displayed in YAML format.
FIGURE 7.9 YAML specification for a Kubernetes deployment
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