Launching Kubernetes on the Google Cloud Platform

As you would expect, Kubernetes is supported natively on Google Cloud. Before progressing, you will need an account, which you can sign up for at http://cloud.google.com/. Once you have your account set up, similar to the other public cloud platforms we have been looking at in this chapter, we need to configure the command-line tools.

Installing the command-line tools

There are installers for all three operating systems. If you are using macOS High Sierra then you can use Homebrew and Cask to install the Google Cloud SDK by running the following:

$ brew cask install google-cloud-sdk

Windows 10 Professional users can use Chocolatey and run the following:

$ choco install gcloudsdk

Finally, Ubuntu 17.04 users will need to run the following:

$ export CLOUD_SDK_REPO="cloud-sdk-$(lsb_release -c -s)"
$ echo "deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt $CLOUD_SDK_REPO main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
$ curl https://packages...