Using the features of GKE
Apart from rapidly deploying kubernetes cluster and allowing it to get managed from cloud shell, GKE leverages many advantages of being under a full-fledged public cloud platform. Let’s start with storage.
Storage and persistent disks
Recall that while working with Compute Engine instances, we had to choose from many storage options, which included persistent disks that could either be ordinary or SSD, local SSD disks, and Google Cloud Storage. Storage options on Kubernetes engine instances are not all that different, but there is, however, one important subtlety. This has to do with the type of attached disk. Recall that when you use the Compute Engine instance that comes along with an attached disk, the link between a Compute Engine instance and the attached disk will remain for as long as the instance exists and the same disk volume is going to be attached to the same instance until the VM is deleted. This will be the case even if you detach the disk and use it...
