☁️ GCP - Google Cloud Platform

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed kubernetes offering by GCP.

Prerequisites

• You have gcloud CLI installed refer to the docs for installation
  • Verify it is in the path by running gcloud version
• Ensure you have kubectl installed and in the path, refer to the docs for installation
  • Verify by running kubectl version
• Ensure you have the helm package manager installed and in the path, refer to the docs for installation
  • Verify by running helm version

Setup

• Ensure you have hour GCP profile configured. Run gcloud auth login. Refer to the docs for configuration

  • Verify by running gcloud auth list to see that you've successfully logged in.

• We will create a new GKE cluster k8s-goat-cluster. You can modify the command as you need, run gcloud container clusters create --help to see all available options.

gcloud container clusters create k8s-goat-cluster --location=us-east1

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This command will create the GKE clusters. The command will exit, once the clusters are created. The whole setup would take 10-15 minutes.

• Once the cluster is created, you can update your ~/.kube/config file with the following command,

gcloud container clusters get-credentials k8s-goat-cluster --zone us-east1

• Confirm that the cluster has been added to your config and the right context is set by running kubectl cluster-info.

• Then clone the Kubernetes Goat repository locally by running the following command

git clone https://github.com/madhuakula/kubernetes-goat.git

• Navigate to the folder for setup and installation of the Kubernetes Goat

cd kubernetes-goat/

• Run the following script to set up and deploy the Kubernetes Goat resources into your cluster

bash setup-kubernetes-goat.sh

• Now we have the Kubernetes Goat setup up and running, refer to Getting Started for next steps