Kubernetes Engine
Compute Engine allows you to create and manage VMs either individually or in groups called instances groups. Instance groups let you manage similar VMs as a single unit. This is helpful if you have a fleet of servers that all run the same software and have the same operational lifecycle. Modern software, however, is often built as a collection of services, sometimes referred to as microservices. Different services may require different configurations of VMs, but you still may want to manage the various instances as a single resource, or cluster. You can use Kubernetes Engine for that.
Kubernetes is an open source tool created by Google for administering clusters of virtual and bare-metal machines. (Kubernetes is sometimes abbreviated K8s.) Kubernetes is a container orchestration service that helps you. It allows you to do the following:
- Create clusters of VMs that run the Kubernetes orchestration software for containers
- Deploy containerized applications to the cluster...
